GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that 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 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 is 1% faster than the GeForce GTX 465 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 1408 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (approximately 89%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23692 (89%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 is a bit (about 16%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 360, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2624 (16%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.