GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which features core 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 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 will be 1% faster than the GeForce GTX 465 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (about 89%) more effective at texture filtering 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 should be a bit (approximately 16%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a 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. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. 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 ability to get to the max fill rate.