Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 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 7950		7731 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 3621 (88%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950		235 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 137 (140%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950		21 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7950 will be 131% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 136000 (131%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 is much (more or less 78%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39200 (78%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7950 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8800 (52%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.