GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 Stream Processors, 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

Radeon R7 360		4110 points
GeForce GTX 850M		3340 points
	Difference: 770 (23%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 850M		49 Sol/s
	Difference: 49 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 850M		40 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 is 225% faster than the GeForce GTX 850M in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 72000 (225%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (approximately 44%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 850M. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		35040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15360 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be just a bit (about 20%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 850M, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		14016 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2784 (20%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.