GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which features core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce 8800 Ultra		171 Watts
	Difference: 71 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 will be 0% quicker than the GeForce 8800 Ultra overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra		103680 MB/sec
	Difference: 320 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 29%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 Ultra. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra		39168 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11232 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be just a bit (approximately 14%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 Ultra, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra		14688 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2112 (14%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.