Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6970 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160000 (1000%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 is a lot (more or less 213%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57480 (213%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6970 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19160 (213%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 output 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 maximum fill rate.