Radeon R7 260 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon R7 260
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 260
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 260Radeon R7 360
GPU NameBonaire (Bonaire PRO)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders768vs768
Compute Units12vs12
Core clock1000 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs48vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 260Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 260Radeon R7 360
TDP95 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date17 Dec 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260
    16.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260
    48.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 260
    96.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 260
    1536.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better