GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which features a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, 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

Radeon R7 360		4110 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 1173 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (115%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 470 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 29920 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (more or less 48%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16408 (48%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be much (more or less 45%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7480 (45%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per 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 - also called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.