GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which has a core clock frequency of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 960M should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is a lot (more or less 62%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16840 (62%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is quite a bit (about 95%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M360, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8536 (95%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.