Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M295X, which comes with a core clock frequency of 750 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1375 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M295X should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160000 (1000%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X should be much (approximately 256%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 69000 (256%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X should be much (approximately 167%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15000 (167%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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