Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which features core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 7970		8225 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 4115 (100%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7970		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 7970		250 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 7970 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		264000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160000 (154%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7970 is quite a bit (approximately 135%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		118400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 68000 (135%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7970 is superior to the Radeon R7 360, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		29600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12800 (76%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card 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 number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.