GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 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 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 will be 102% faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		32384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16384 (102%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is quite a bit (about 170%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		10000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17000 (170%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M360 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure 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 graphics 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 card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.