GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M360, which has GPU clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 970M should be 500% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a lot (about 174%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46920 (174%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be quite a bit (more or less 393%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35352 (393%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.