Radeon R7 360E vs Radeon HD 4870 X2

Radeon R7 360E
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Dec 2015
Radeon R7 360E
Radeon HD 4870 X2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Aug 2008
Radeon HD 4870 X2

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360E

211 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4870 X2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870 X2

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 360E

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 360E

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 360ERadeon HD 4870 X2
GPU NameTobago (Tobago PRO)vsR700 (R700 XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs256 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs956 million
Shaders768vs800
Compute Units12vs10
Core clock1050 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs48vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 360ERadeon HD 4870 X2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 360ERadeon HD 4870 X2
TDP75 wattsvs286 watts
Release Date30 Dec 2015vs12 Aug 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 360E
    16.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    22.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 360E
    50.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    56.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 360E
    96.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    230.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 360E
    1612.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    2240.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better