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Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon R7 360 's Advantages
Boost Clock1050MHz
Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)
Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 360
1613
Radeon R9 285X +154%
4104

Graphics Card

Jun 2015
Release Date
Unknown
Pirate Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s

Render Config

12
Compute Units
32
768
Shading Units
2048
48
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.06 GPixel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.3 GTexel/s
1.613 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.104 TFLOPS
100.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

100W
TDP
200W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tobago
GPU Name
Tonga
Tobago PRO (215-0875010)
GPU Variant
Tonga XT (215-0851313)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
5 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.3
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