Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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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 RX 460		5595 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 1485 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 is 8% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is quite a bit (more or less 21%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10640 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be a small bit (about 4%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 640 (4%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record 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 the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.