GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which has clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 189 Watts (189%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 295 should in theory be much faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 119776 (115%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is a lot (approximately 83%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41760 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15456 (92%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 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 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel 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 reach the maximum fill rate.