GeForce GTS 450 1GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTS 450 1GB, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB		57728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41728 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is a little bit (more or less 8%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		25056 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1944 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 1GB is much (about 39%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB		12528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3528 (39%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.