Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1625 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units 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 R7 360		4110 points
Radeon HD 6790		2150 points
	Difference: 1960 (91%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon HD 6790		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6790 should be much faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6790		134400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 30400 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (about 50%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6790. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16800 (50%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (approximately 25%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6790, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		13440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (25%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.