Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon HD 6870 X2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6870 X2
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870 X2

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360

200 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 X2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6870 X2Radeon R7 360
GPU NameBarts (Barts XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size255 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1120vs768
Compute Units14vs12
Core clock900 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs56vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6870 X2Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6870 X2Radeon R7 360
TDP300 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date8 Jul 2011vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870 X2
    57.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6870 X2
    100.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6870 X2
    268.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6870 X2
    4032.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better