Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M380, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 will be 8% quicker than the Radeon R9 M380 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (more or less 26%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10400 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 800 (5%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.