GeForce GT 315 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which features core 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 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 315 should be much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 315		25280 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 9280 (58%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is much (approximately 170%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 315. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 315		10000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17000 (170%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be much (more or less 80%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 315, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 315		5000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4000 (80%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.