GeForce GTS 250 512MB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which features GPU clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTS 250 512MB should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 512MB		70400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 54400 (340%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 512MB should be much (about 75%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 512MB		47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20232 (75%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTS 250 512MB is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 512MB		11808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2808 (31%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant 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.