Radeon HD 7790 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which has GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 Stream Processors, 48 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 HD 7790		4330 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 220 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7790		85 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 should perform a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7790 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 will be a small bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5600 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA 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 HD 7790		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.