GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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

GeForce GTX 980M		9476 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 5366 (131%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980M		155 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 57 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980M is 23% faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M will be quite a bit (more or less 98%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49248 (98%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M will be much (approximately 295%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49632 (295%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.