Radeon R7 360E vs Radeon R7 265

Radeon R7 360E
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Dec 2015
Radeon R7 360E
Radeon R7 265
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 265

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 360E

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 265 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 265

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 360ERadeon R7 265
GPU NameTobago (Tobago PRO)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders768vs1024
Compute Units12vs16
Core clock1050 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs48vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 360ERadeon R7 265
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 360ERadeon R7 265
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date30 Dec 2015vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 360E
    16.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 360E
    50.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 360E
    96.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 360E
    1612.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better