Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which features clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 240 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be a lot (about 85%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12400 (85%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M360 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3160 (54%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends 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.