AMD Radeon R7 360

AMD Radeon R7 360 is a 28 nm GCN 2.0 graphics card from the Pirate Islands (R7 300) generation, built by TSMC with 2,080 million transistors on a 160 mm² die. It carries 2 GB GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, with a 1500 MHz memory clock, 6 Gbps effective transfer rate, and 96.00 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU contains 768 shading units, 48 texture units, and 16 ROPs; its 1000 MHz base and 1050 MHz boost clocks produce 1.613 TFLOPS FP32, 50.40 GTexel/s, and 16.80 GPixel/s. It is a single-slot card measuring 165 mm (6.5 inches), with a 100 W TDP, one 6-pin power connector, and a 300 W suggested PSU. The database records its launch MSRP 109 USD, production status as end-of-life, and overall rank at the 50th percentile among all GPUs.

Who Should Consider It

The R7 360 sits at the median of the database's all-GPU ranking, so the specification profile is consistent with a middle-position part rather than a high-end one. Because the benchmarks array is empty, the practical recommendation must be built from the available memory, rate, and throughput fields. The 2 GB GDDR5 frame buffer and 96.00 GB/s memory bandwidth define the memory ceiling: workloads that fit within 2 GB of video memory and that do not require extremely fast memory movement are the plausible use cases. High-resolution rendering consumes both capacity and bandwidth, so the 128-bit bus and 2 GB capacity place clear boundaries on how much texture and render-target data can be moved per frame.

The 768 shading units and 1.613 TFLOPS FP32 throughput give the card enough compute capacity for moderate shader workloads. The 48 TMUs and 16 ROPs, working at the 1050 MHz boost clock, deliver 50.40 GTexel/s and 16.80 GPixel/s respectively. These fill-rate figures indicate that the card can handle lower-detail scenes and modest display resolutions more comfortably than high-resolution, high-detail scenes. Users who run less demanding 3D applications or older game titles may find the R7 360 sufficient; users targeting high-resolution image quality would need more memory capacity and a wider memory path than this specification offers. Because the production status is end-of-life and the release date is 2015-06-17, this is a dated product whose capabilities should be judged against its own recorded data rather than current software expectations.

The 50th percentile placement is the only database scoring signal available. It confirms that the card is neither a low-end outlier nor a top performer. In practical terms, that median position, together with the 2 GB memory and 96.00 GB/s bandwidth, suggests conservative settings and lower resolution as the safer operating envelope. Without measured benchmark scores, no exact frame-rate or settings validation is possible from the fact pack alone.

Memory Subsystem

The memory subsystem consists of 2 GB GDDR5, a 128-bit bus, a 1500 MHz memory clock, a 6 Gbps effective transfer rate, and 96.00 GB/s bandwidth. These numbers are all from the same configuration, so they should be read collectively rather than in isolation. The 128-bit bus width limits how much data can cross memory interfaces per clock, and the 96.00 GB/s bandwidth represents the resulting throughput. For high resolutions, bandwidth is a primary constraint because larger frames require more data to be written and read in the same period.

Capacity is the other constraint. 2 GB is a fixed amount of GDDR5. High-resolution textures, geometry buffers, and render targets compete for that space. Once the working set exceeds 2 GB, the GPU must fall back on slower data movement, which the 96.00 GB/s bus cannot fully compensate for. The memory clock of 1500 MHz with 6 Gbps effective is the stated transfer rate; the effective figure is what the memory interface yields per pin. The 48 TMUs and 16 ROPs produce 50.40 GTexel/s and 16.80 GPixel/s at boost, and those rates are also dependent on memory bandwidth for real-world workloads. In short, the R7 360's memory subsystem is a coherent 2 GB / 128-bit / 96.00 GB/s design that supports moderate resolution workloads but will be strained by high-resolution data sets.

Ray Tracing and Feature Set

The R7 360 does not list RT cores or tensor cores in the database. There is no dedicated ray tracing hardware and no tensor-accelerated processing in the feature set. Its architecture is GCN 2.0, a design that predates the dedicated hardware blocks found in later architectures. The API support is well defined: DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.2.170 are all present in the record. These APIs allow the card to run modern graphics interfaces, but the absence of RT and tensor cores means any ray-tracing workload would run on general-purpose shader hardware rather than dedicated acceleration.

The card uses a PCIe 3.0 x16 bus interface. It provides one DVI, one HDMI 1.4a, and one DisplayPort 1.2 output. Those are the only display output specifications listed. The HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2 versions are important because they determine the supported output standards for the card. The feature set is therefore built around conventional rasterization, compute shaders, and API compatibility, not specialized hardware features.

How It Compares

The nearestRivals list is empty in the database, which means there are no rival GPU names, rival scores, or deltaPct values to report. Consequently, this section cannot provide one short paragraph per nearest rival; the database record does not contain any rival entries. The only comparison metric available is the percentileVsAllGpus field, which places the R7 360 at the 50th percentile. That places it in the exact middle of the database's all-GPU distribution: it is not in the upper half of the ranking and not in the lower half.

The avgBenchmarkScore is 0 and the benchmarks array is empty, so this median placement exists without an accompanying measured score. The card's generational context is described by the predecessor and successor fields: Volcanic Islands precedes it, and Arctic Islands follows it. The R7 360 is part of the Pirate Islands (R7 300) generation, with the R7 300 name included in that generation string. Because no rival records are present, any statement naming a specific competitor or quoting a percentage advantage would be unsupported by the FACT PACK.

Power and Cooling

The R7 360 is rated for a 100 W TDP. The suggested power supply is 300 W, and the power connector requirement is one 6-pin PCIe connector. These figures define the power envelope: a relatively low TDP, a standard single 6-pin connector, and a moderate PSU recommendation. The card is single-slot, so it does not require the extra installation space of a multi-slot cooler. Its length is 165 mm, or 6.5 inches, which is a compact physical dimension.

The underlying process and die data support this power profile. The chip is built on TSMC's 28 nm process, with 2,080 million transistors and a die size of 160 mm². The transistor density is 13.0M per mm². The 100 W TDP is the stated thermal design point; the 300 W suggested PSU is the power supply target. Anyone connecting this card needs a power supply that provides one 6-pin connector and can support the 100 W TDP alongside the rest of the system, based on the recorded requirements.

FAQ

Q: What architecture does the AMD Radeon R7 360 use?

A: It uses GCN 2.0 architecture with the chip codename Tobago. The process is 28 nm at TSMC, containing 2,080 million transistors on a 160 mm² die.

Q: How much memory does the R7 360 have?

A: It has 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, with a 1500 MHz memory clock, 6 Gbps effective transfer rate, and 96.00 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Q: What graphics APIs are supported?

A: The card supports DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.2.170.

Q: What power supply and power connector are required?

A: The TDP is 100 W, the suggested PSU is 300 W, and the card requires one 6-pin PCIe power connector.

Q: What display outputs does the R7 360 have?

A: It has one DVI, one HDMI 1.4a, and one DisplayPort 1.2 output.

Q: Does the R7 360 have dedicated ray tracing or tensor cores?

A: No. The rtCores and tensorCores fields are null in the database, so the card does not have dedicated hardware for those functions.

Benchmark Performance

The benchmark data for the R7 360 is empty. The benchmarks array contains no entries, and the avgBenchmarkScore is 0. As a result, there are no measured scores to analyze and no exact percentage deltas can be calculated. The nearestRivals list is also empty, so the usual deltaPct comparisons against named competitors are not present in the FACT PACK.

The only ranking field is percentileVsAllGpus, which is set to 50. That places the card at the median of the database's all-GPU distribution. Without benchmark scores, this percentile cannot be tied to a particular speed or frame rate. The performance-related numbers that do exist are the throughput rates: 1.613 TFLOPS FP32, 50.40 GTexel/s, and 16.80 GPixel/s at the 1050 MHz boost clock. The 768 shading units, 48 TMUs, and 16 ROPs provide the hardware context for those rates. The 1000 MHz base clock and 1050 MHz boost clock show the operating range.

Because the database contains no score values, claims such as "30% faster than a rival" or "20% behind another GPU" would be unsupported. The only completely grounded statement is the position at the 50th percentile among all GPUs, paired with the peak throughput figures from the clock and unit configuration. This makes the R7 360 a median-ranked part in the database, with performance characteristics that must be inferred from its memory, pixel, texture, and compute rates rather than from measured benchmark results.