GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which has a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, 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

Radeon R7 360		4110 points
GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 780 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (82%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 950M overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 72000 (225%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (about 38%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13840 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce GTX 950M, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2176 (15%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.