Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which features core speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 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 R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 2990 (267%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (550%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be quite a bit (more or less 194%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33240 (194%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (about 194%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11080 (194%)

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 moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.