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Radeon HD 4870 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

The Radeon HD 4870 1GB comes with a GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which has GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360 100 Watts
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 150 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4870 1GB, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 1GB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 11200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be quite a bit (about 68%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360 50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20400 (68%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be quite a bit (approximately 40%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 360 16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4800 (40%)

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 4870 1GB Radeon R7 360
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 June 2015
Code Name RV770 XT Tobago
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 30000 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12000 Mpixels/sec 16800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 768
Texture Mapping Units 40 48
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 956 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4870 1GB

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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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