Radeon HD 7790 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with core 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.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7790 should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 is a lot (approximately 107%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29000 (107%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7790 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7000 (78%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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