GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 360 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be quite a bit (approximately 350%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39200 (350%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (about 500%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14000 (500%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.