Radeon HD 5570 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 5570 should be 80% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be much (about 108%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 5570. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		13000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14000 (108%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M360 is superior to the Radeon HD 5570, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3800 (73%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.