Radeon HD 4790 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which has core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should be 2% quicker than the Radeon HD 4790 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4790		102400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (approximately 163%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4790. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4790		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31200 (163%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (more or less 75%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 4790, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4790		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (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 transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus 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 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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