Radeon R9 270X vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon R9 270X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 270X
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 270X
    135%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 270X

Around 35% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 270X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270X

The Radeon R9 270X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R7 360
GPU NameCuracao (Curacao XT)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1280vs768
Compute Units20vs12
Core clock1000 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 270XRadeon R7 360
TDP180 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date8 Oct 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270X
    32.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 270X
    80.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 270X
    179.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 270X
    2560.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 270X
    8700
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)