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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire vs Radeon R7 360

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon R7 360, 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 6970M Crossfire stacks up against Radeon R7 360, check out specs charts below.
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    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire here:

    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon R7 360
    Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2x2 GB 2 GB
    Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Radeon R7 360 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is used in Laptops, and Radeon R7 360 - in Desktops.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R7 360 - with GCN 2.0.
    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 360 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R7 360 is 5100 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 21−24 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 12−14 9−10
    QHD / 1440p 7−8 4−5
    4K / 2160p 5−6 4−5
    low / 720p 40−45 30−35
    medium / 1080p 24−27 20−22
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 35% more, than Radeon R7 360.

    Full Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Radeon R7 360
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 2.0
    Code name Blackcomb XT Tobago
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 6 January 2011 18 June 2015
    Pipelines 1920 768
    Core clock speed 680 MHz
    Boost Clock 1000 MHz
    Transistor count 2x1700 Million 2,080 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 50.40
    Floating-point performance 1,613 gflops
    Length 165 mm
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 900 MHz 6000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 6.3
    OpenGL 4.6
    OpenCL 2.0
    Vulkan +
    Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.2 kh/s
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 225 Mh/s
    Laptop size large
    Eyefinity +
    PowerTune +
    TrueAudio +
    Mantle +
    Design reference
    Bridgeless CrossFire +
    Number of Eyefinity displays 6
    DisplayPort support +
    CrossFire +
    VCE +
    DDMA audio +
    Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.29 Gh/s
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 10 Mh/s
    Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 102 Sol/s
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