GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which has 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 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

GeForce GTX 960M		4350 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 240 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (54%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a bit (about 15%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6560 (15%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 736 (4%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.