GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which features clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980M, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M should be much (approximately 269%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 72648 (269%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M is a lot (approximately 638%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57432 (638%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.