Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 250 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 57600 (360%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be a small bit (more or less 13%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3000 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be a little bit (about 13%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 250, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1000 (13%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.