Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 560 should theoretically be a little bit better than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be a lot (about 49%) more effective at AF 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 will be a little bit (more or less 12%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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.