GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which features a core clock speed 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 is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 360		4110 points
GeForce GTS 450		1453 points
	Difference: 2657 (183%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTS 450 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (about 101%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450		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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.