Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of 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 specific 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 M360 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be a lot (about 440%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22000 (440%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be quite a bit (approximately 260%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		2500 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6500 (260%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.