GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 M360 is 25% quicker than the GeForce 8500 GT overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be much (about 650%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		3600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23400 (650%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be quite a bit (about 400%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 8500 GT, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		1800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (400%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.