GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which has clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 660 will be 801% faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		144192 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128192 (801%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 will be quite a bit (more or less 190%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		78400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51400 (190%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 should be much (about 161%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		23520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14520 (161%)

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 transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.