Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 will be 44% quicker than the Radeon R9 M370X in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 58%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18400 (58%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (approximately 31%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M370X, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4000 (31%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.