GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which has 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 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 8800 Ultra should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce 8800 Ultra		103680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 87680 (548%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 Ultra should be much (about 45%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce 8800 Ultra		39168 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12168 (45%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 Ultra is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 8800 Ultra		14688 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5688 (63%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.