GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		70400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 54400 (340%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB is quite a bit (about 75%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20232 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB will be quite a bit (approximately 31%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M360, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.