GeForce 8800 GT 256MB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 256MB		44800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 28800 (180%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 256MB will be much (approximately 24%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 256MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6600 (24%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 256MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 600 (7%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.