GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which has a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation 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 590		6680 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 2570 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 265 Watts (265%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 590 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224320 (216%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be a lot (more or less 54%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27296 (54%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 will be a lot (about 247%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41472 (247%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.