GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs 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 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M overall. (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 (approximately 15%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon R7 360, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.