Radeon HD 7970M vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon HD 7970M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 24 Apr 2012
Radeon HD 7970M
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7970M
    105%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970M

Around 5% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970M

The Radeon HD 7970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7970MRadeon R7 360
GPU NameWimbledon (Wimbledon XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1280vs768
Compute Units20vs12
Core clock850 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7970MRadeon 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 7970MRadeon R7 360
TDP100 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date24 Apr 2012vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7970M
    27.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7970M
    68.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7970M
    153.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7970M
    2176.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7970M
    6730
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)