GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which features a core clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 M360 should theoretically be just a bit better than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be much (about 21%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4728 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is a lot (more or less 21%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 930M, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1576 (21%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.