Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 360 OEM

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7850 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 7850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NamePitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1024vs768
Compute Units16vs12
Core clock860 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R9 360 OEM
TDP130 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date5 Mar 2012vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better