GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which features core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Radeon R7 360		4110 points
GeForce 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 2370 (136%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 940M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (550%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be a lot (about 96%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24672 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8224 (96%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.