GeForce GTS 450 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which features a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		106 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		57728 MB/sec
	Difference: 46272 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (more or less 101%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		25056 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25344 (101%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (about 34%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB, and capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		12528 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4272 (34%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied 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 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 card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.