GeForce GTS 150 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which uses 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 card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTS 150 will be 100% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150		32000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 150 is much (more or less 75%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150		47360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20360 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 150 should be quite a bit (approximately 32%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 M360, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150		11840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2840 (32%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.