Radeon R5 M330 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 M360 is 11% quicker than the Radeon R5 M330 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be a lot (about 31%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M360 is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 760 (9%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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