Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon HD 7850		5200 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 1090 (27%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 73 (74%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7850		13 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7850 should be 48% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (48%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7850 is just a bit (approximately 9%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4640 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7850 will be much (approximately 64%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10720 (64%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.