GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency 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 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 should be a lot 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 quite a bit (more or less 96%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 96%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 940M, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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 MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.