Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon R9 M270X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M270X, which comes with core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M270X should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M270X should be a small bit (approximately 7%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X		29000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2000 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M270X is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X		11600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2600 (29%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure 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 per second.

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