Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 250X
    100%
  • Radeon R7 360
    159%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250X

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 59% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 360

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 360

The Radeon R7 360 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250XRadeon R7 360
GPU NameCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders640vs768
Compute Units10vs12
Core clock950 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250XRadeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250XRadeon R7 360
TDP80 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2014vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)