Radeon R7 360 vs RX 480 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated515
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data4.34
Power efficiencyno data5.54
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameEllesmereTobago
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)18 June 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$450 $109

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304768
Core clock speed1000 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1077 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate155.150.40
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS1.613 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs14448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data165 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1 x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire-+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s112 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity-+
Number of Eyefinity displaysno data6
HDMI-+
DisplayPort support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire-+
FreeSync-+
PowerTune-+
TrueAudio-+
VCE-+
DDMA audiono data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)DirectX® 12
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.131+
Mantle-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 18 June 2015
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

RX 480 Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 Mobile and Radeon R7 360. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon R7 360 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile
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