Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M375, which features a clock frequency of 1015 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1100 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M375, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 19200 (120%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 should be a lot (about 50%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (50%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is much (more or less 80%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M360, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7240 (80%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.