Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R9 M360

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R9 M360, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 5870 stacks up against Radeon R9 M360, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 5870 Radeon R9 M360
Power consumption (TDP) 188 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 5870 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 M360 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon R9 M360 has 3 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5870.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 5870 is build with TeraScale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 M360 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon R9 M360 is 50 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5870.
  • Radeon HD 5870 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 M360 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5870 is 3675 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 M360.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−12 8−9
ultra / 1080p 6−7 4−5
QHD / 1440p 1−2 0−1
low / 720p 24−27 18−20
medium / 1080p 14−16 9−10
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 40% more, than Radeon R9 M360.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 5870 Radeon R9 M360
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 1.0
Code name Cypress Tropo
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 23 September 2009 5 May 2015
Pipelines 1600 512
Core clock speed 850 MHz 900 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Transistor count 2,154 million 1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 68.00 29.60
Floating-point performance 2,720.0 gflops 947.2 gflops
Length 282 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 72 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 Not Listed
Vulkan N/A
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Eyefinity +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
DualGraphics +
ZeroCore +
Switchable graphics +
Mantle +
Compute units 8
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