Radeon R5 M330 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which has GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R5 M330 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 89600 (622%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (about 145%) better at AF than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29800 (145%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the Radeon R5 M330, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8560 (104%)

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.