Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260X, which features core clock speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (approximately 155%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30600 (155%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10200 (155%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.