Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon R9 290
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 290
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 290
    241%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290

Around 141% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

175 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 290

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290

The Radeon R9 290 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 290Radeon R7 360
GPU NameHawaii (Hawaii PRO)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size438 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors6,200 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders2560vs768
Compute Units40vs12
Core clock947 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs64vs16
TMUs160vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 290Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width512 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 290Radeon R7 360
TDP275 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date5 Nov 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 290
    60.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 290
    152.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 290
    320.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 290
    4849.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 290
    15440
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)