GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should theoretically be just a bit better than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 4800 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (approximately 38%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14000 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4000 (24%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.