Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which features clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 680		7650 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 3540 (86%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (60%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (95%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 680 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88256 (85%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is a lot (about 155%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78368 (155%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be much (more or less 92%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15392 (92%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.