Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 260X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R9 360 OEM
GPU NameBonaire (Bonaire XTX)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders896vs768
Compute Units14vs12
Core clock1100 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 260XRadeon R9 360 OEM
TDP115 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better