GeForce GT 340 1GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with GPU core speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 340 1GB should be much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (240%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be much (approximately 53%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9400 (53%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is much (about 105%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GT 340 1GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4600 (105%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.