Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    129%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Around 29% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7870 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

The Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7870 GHz EditionRadeon R7 360
GPU NamePitcairn (Pitcairn XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1280vs768
Compute Units20vs12
Core clock1000 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7870 GHz EditionRadeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7870 GHz EditionRadeon R7 360
TDP175 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date5 Mar 2012vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    80.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    2560.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    8290
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)