Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 750 is available in only a couple of variants but costs a tempting £95.
The R7 360 has strong competition, however. In addition, the card requires only one six-pin power connector, which means it’ll be compatible with a greater number of power supplies. This makes the R7 360 ideal for smaller cases. It’s a modest card, with several board partner versions barely any longer than a PCI Express x16 slot. The revised 1,050MHz core is 50MHz quicker than last year’s card, and the 2GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 6,500MHz – an improvement of 500MHz on last year. The core might be the same, but AMD has given the R7 360 a little boost with clock tweaks across the board. It’s done the same here, with 12 compute units used to form the R7 360. The full-fat Bonaire core has 14 compute units with 896 stream processors, which AMD had cut down to 12 units and 768 stream processors for the R7 260. The core used here is called Tobago, but underneath it is the Bonaire GPU used in the older R7 260 and R7 260X cards. This is one of AMD’s cheapest discrete cards, so the firm has recycled and boosted an older part to create the R7 360. AMD also says it’s suitable for MOBA players who want to game with settings beyond what any integrated core can offer. That makes the R7 360 suitable for gamers wanting to play titles at 1080p, but without forking out more than £100. At just £84, it costs less than anything that’s recently been released by either AMD or Nvidia. The latest graphics card from AMD is the most affordable I’ve seen from its 300-series of parts.