GeForce GTX 460 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 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 460 1GB		160 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 1GB will be 11% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 1GB		115200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 11200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 33%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12600 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 1GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (29%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video 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 number of colour ROPs 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.