GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which has 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 240 GDDR5 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		54400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (240%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be much (more or less 53%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9400 (53%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be much (more or less 105%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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.