GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTS 450 should be 261% faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be a small bit (about 8%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 should be quite a bit (about 39%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 are applied per second. This number is worked out 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 the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends 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 max fill rate.