Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M395X, which has clock speeds of 723 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X		125 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M395X should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		160000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (54%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X will be quite a bit (approximately 84%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		92544 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42144 (84%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M395X is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		23136 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6336 (38%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.