Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon R9 280
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2014
Radeon R9 280
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R9 280
    152%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 280

Around 52% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 280

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280

The Radeon R9 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 280Radeon R7 360
GPU NameTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size352 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors4,313 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1792vs768
Compute Units28vs12
Core clock827 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs112vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 280Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 280Radeon R7 360
TDP200 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date4 Mar 2014vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 280
    29.86 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 280
    104.50 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 280
    240.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 280
    3344.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R9 280
    9790
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)