Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which features core clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 is 10% faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 10688 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be quite a bit (approximately 49%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24800 (49%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be just a bit (more or less 12%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2000 (12%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.