Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M385X, which features GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 M385X in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X will be quite a bit (approximately 22%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11200 (22%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M385X is superior to the Radeon R7 360, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 800 (5%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.