GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this card. 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)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 is 81% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 46400 (81%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (approximately 50%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16800 (50%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (75%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 per second.

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