In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 360 v2 Gigabyte OC 2GB Edition are very slightly better than the AMD Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition.

The R7 360 has a 170 MHz higher core clock speed than the R7 260X, but the R7 260X has 8 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 360. As a result, the R7 260X exhibits a 0.1 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the R7 360. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 360 has a 170 MHz higher core clock speed than the R7 260X and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the R7 360 providing 2.7 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 360 was released over a year more recently than the R7 260X, and so the R7 360 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the R7 260X.

The R7 360 has 1024 MB more video memory than the R7 260X, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the R7 360 also has superior memory performance overall.

The R7 360 has 8 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 260X, which means that the memory performance of the R7 360 is marginally better than the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 360 v2 Gigabyte OC 2GB Edition has 768 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition has 896. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 360 is 783 and the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 784. The R7 260X having 1 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the R7 360 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The Radeon R7 360 v2 Gigabyte OC 2GB Edition requires 150 Watts to run and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition requires 105 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 360 and a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 260X. The R7 360 requires 45 Watts more than the R7 260X to run. The difference is significant enough that the R7 360 may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 260X.