GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which has a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 660		5063 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 953 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 660		140 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 660 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		144192 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40192 (39%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 is a lot (approximately 56%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		78400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28000 (56%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 660 is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		23520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6720 (40%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.