Radeon R9 260 OEM vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon R9 260 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R9 260 OEM
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 260 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 260 OEMRadeon R7 360
GPU NameBonaire (Bonaire XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders896vs768
Compute Units14vs12
Core clock1100 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 260 OEMRadeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 260 OEMRadeon R7 360
TDP85 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date21 Dec 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 260 OEM
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 260 OEM
    61.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 260 OEM
    1971.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better