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Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

The Radeon HD 6850 features a clock speed of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 960 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 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 R7 360 4110 points
Radeon HD 6850 2395 points
Difference: 1715 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360 100 Watts
Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Difference: 27 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6850, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 24000 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 35%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

Radeon R7 360 50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13200 (35%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6850 will be a lot (approximately 48%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360 16800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8000 (48%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 6850 Radeon R7 360
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2010 June 2015
Code Name Barts Pro Tobago
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 775 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 127 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37200 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24800 Mpixels/sec 16800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 768
Texture Mapping Units 48 48
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1700 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6850

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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