Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features a clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 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 R9 380 4G		8837 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 4727 (115%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 4G		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 R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 78400 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is a lot (more or less 116%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58240 (116%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14240 (85%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends 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 max fill rate.