What is the difference between a R9 360 and a R7 360?

[Auzzi]

Hello community. I was curious what the difference between a R9 360 and a R7 360 is?

I bought a computer with the R9 360 and I can't find any gameplay with it on YouTube, only R7 360. If someone could explain which is better and why that would be great!

Thanks
- Auzzi

 

[Forever Oleg]

R9 360 doesn't exist. It's the R7 360. The sellers are probably just stupid.

 

[Auzzi]

R9 360 doesn't exist. It's the R7 360. The sellers are probably just stupid.

It exists. Go onto AMD's website and it will show it there. http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem

 

[Forever Oleg]

R9 360 doesn't exist. It's the R7 360. The sellers are probably just stupid.

It exists. Go onto AMD's website and it will show it there. http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem

Please, listen to me.

Here's the AMD GPU layout:

R7 250, R7 250X, R7 360, R9 370, R9 380, R9 380X, R9 390, R9 390X, R9 Fury, R9 Nano, R9 Fury X

It is R7 360. R9 360 does NOT exist. It can be named that way but it is R7 Series.

 

[Forever Oleg]

R9 360 doesn't exist. It's the R7 360. The sellers are probably just stupid.

It exists. Go onto AMD's website and it will show it there. http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem

It is an OEM graphics card that is R9. It is still the same R7 360.

 

[Auzzi]

R9 360 doesn't exist. It's the R7 360. The sellers are probably just stupid.

It exists. Go onto AMD's website and it will show it there. http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem

It is an OEM graphics card that is R9. It is still the same R7 360.

So you're saying the R7 360 and the R9 360 are the same thing? (Im confused)

 

[siviprime]

The R9 360 is basically the OEM version, not on sale to the public but instead sold to manufacturers like HP, Acer, Lenovo etc. The one sold to the public is called the R7 360, they are exactly the same card.

 

[JDFan]

As mentioned the R9 360 is an update product sold by OEM manufacturers to make people think it is a newer generation product when it is actually still the same old card -- OEMs do this so that when selling a computer they can list it as an R9 generation card rather than having buyers think they are using an aging R7 generation product. (Same thing as the older 5770 and 6770 - both same cards and can even be used for crossfire together) - Sometimes they do have a slightly newer BIOS or slightly increased memory speed - so there might be a few small changes or added features but they are the same hardware just renamed due to not having a new generation product at that performance level and the OEMs not wanting to try to sell customers an older generation product when a new generation has been released at other performance levels so they rename an existing card with the new generation moniker..

 

[siviprime]

As mentioned the R9 360 is an update product sold by OEM manufacturers to make people think it is a newer generation product when it is actually still the same old card -- OEMs do this so that when selling a computer they can list it as an R9 generation card rather than having buyers think they are using an aging R7 generation product. (Same thing as the older 5770 and 6770 - both same cards and can even be used for crossfire together) - Sometimes they do have a slightly newer BIOS or slightly increased memory speed - so there might be a few small changes or added features but they are the same hardware just renamed due to not having a new generation product at that performance level and the OEMs not wanting to try to sell customers an older generation product when a new generation has been released at other performance levels so they rename an existing card with the new generation moniker..

You may be slightly misinformed. The R7 and R9 series are of the same generation (same age). It's just that the R9 series is better in terms of performance, than the R7 series.

OEMs do this to make the customer think that it is better than than the lower-down series GPU when they use exactly the same chip. The R7/R9 200 series is older than the 300 series (though many of them are just a rebrand of an older card). So to conclude, the R7 360 and R9 360 are the same card; one is sold to manufacturers, the other is sold commercially to the public.