GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be a lot (about 42%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8040 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is quite a bit (approximately 111%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9960 (111%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 in a second.

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