GeForce GTX 285 2GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which features a core clock frequency of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 2GB		158976 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 142976 (894%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB should be quite a bit (approximately 92%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 2GB		51840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24840 (92%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB is quite a bit (about 130%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 2GB		20736 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11736 (130%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.