Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon R7 360

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
Radeon R7 360
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 360

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    260%
  • Radeon R7 360
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 160% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 360
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders2048vs768
Compute Units32vs12
Core clock926 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 360
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470Radeon R7 360
TDP120 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 360
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 360
    1612.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • Radeon R7 360
    6400

Points (higher is better)