Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 250
    100%
  • Radeon R7 360
    233%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.
Around 133% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 360

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 360

The Radeon R7 360 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 360
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs768
Compute Units6vs12
Core clock1000 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 250Radeon R7 360
TDP65 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 250
    2740
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)