Radeon R7 360

The video card of the Radeon R7 360 model 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 chip modification contains 12 active Compute Units of 14 pieces physically present in the graphics processor - everything is exactly the same as in the Radeon R7 260 model. The Bonaire graphics processor belongs to the second-generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture that we have long known (conditionally it can be called GCN 1.1), in which some changes have been made.

The chip does not differ too much from the first generation of GCN architecturally, but many useful improvements have indeed been made to it. So, in the new architecture, instructions for a heterogeneous architecture (Heterogeneous System Architecture - HSA), support for more simultaneously executable threads appeared, DirectX 12 added support for the Feature Level 12_0 feature level, and a new version of AMD PowerTune technology was also introduced.

The Radeon R7 360 has 12 active GCN architecture compute units, which correspond to 768 stream computing processors. And since each active GCN unit has 4 texture units, the total number of TMUs for the model under consideration is 48 texture sampling and filtering units. The Radeon R7 360 has 16 active ROP units, and the chip's memory bus is 128-bit, assembled from two 64-bit channels. The use of a relatively fast GDDR5 memory made it possible to provide a sufficiently high bandwidth for a video card of the lower price segment, which was further increased in the solution of the new line, reaching a value of 104 GB/s.

Similar to other models from the Radeon 300 line, the Radeon R7 360 graphics card provides slightly better performance than its counterpart from the Radeon 200 family. In this case, AMD raised the GPU and video memory frequencies from 1000 MHz and 6 GHz to 1050 MHz and 6.5 GHz compared to Radeon R7 260.

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

Radeon R7 360 Specifications