Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 285, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 285		8500 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 4390 (107%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 285		18 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (80%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 285 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 72000 (69%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 should be quite a bit (more or less 104%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52416 (104%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 is much (approximately 75%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12576 (75%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.