GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 360 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be quite a bit (approximately 350%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (about 500%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.