GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 260 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260		111888 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 95888 (599%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 should be a lot (about 37%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260		36864 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9864 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 is quite a bit (about 79%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M360, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260		16128 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7128 (79%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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