GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which features clock 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 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

The Radeon R7 360, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (approximately 38%) faster with regards to texture filtering 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce GTX 950M, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.