GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 2426 (59%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 57 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950 is 2% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 1728 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be a small bit (more or less 3%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1248 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is a lot (about 95%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15968 (95%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.