Radeon HD 6950 2GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which has clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. 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

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 2GB		160000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 144000 (900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB will be much (more or less 161%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 2GB		70400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43400 (161%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 2GB is a lot (approximately 184%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 2GB		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16600 (184%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.