GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 97600 (1525%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be much (about 2700%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48600 (2700%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15900 (1767%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 reach the max fill rate.