AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 360 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1050MHz vs 975MHz)
Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)