Radeon R7 360

The Radeon R7 360 graphics card is based on the Tobago chip, also previously known to us from the Radeon HD 7790 as Bonaire, but not in its full configuration. This modification of the chip contains 12 active Compute Units out of 14 pieces, physically present in the graphics processor - all exactly the same as in the Radeon R7 260 model. The Bonaire graphics processor belongs to the long-familiar to us Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture of the second generation (it can be conventionally called GCN 1.1), in which some changes were made.

The chip is not very different architecturally from the first generation GCN, but many useful improvements have indeed been made to it. Thus, the new architecture introduced instructions for heterogeneous architecture (Heterogeneous System Architecture - HSA), support for a larger number of simultaneously executed threads, support for Feature Level 12_12 appeared in DirectX 0, and a new version of AMD PowerTune technology was also introduced.

The Radeon R7 360 has 12 active GCN architecture computing units, which correspond to 768 stream computing processors. And since each active GCN unit has 4 texture units, the final figure for the number of TMUs for the model in question is 48 texture sampling and filtering units. The Radeon R7 360 has 16 active ROP units, and the chip has a 128-bit memory bus, assembled from two 64-bit channels. The use of relatively fast GDDR5 memory has provided a fairly high throughput for a low-end video card, which has been further increased in the solution of the new line, reaching 104 GB/s.

Like other models in the Radeon 300 series, the Radeon R7 360 graphics card provides slightly higher performance than its counterpart in the Radeon 200 family. In this case, AMD has increased the frequencies GPU and video memory: from 1000 MHz and 6 GHz to 1050 MHz and 6.5 GHz, compared to the Radeon R7 260.

It is aimed at players interested in multiplayer games and using low rendering resolutions up to 1920x1080 inclusive. Although games such as DOTA 2, League of Legends. 

Radeon R7 360 Specifications