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GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

The GeForce 8500 GT comes with core speeds of 450 MHz on the GPU, and 400 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 16 SPUs as well as 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which features GPU clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 M360 should be a lot faster than the GeForce 8500 GT in general. (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 (approximately 650%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M360 is superior to the GeForce 8500 GT, and very much so. (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

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GeForce 8500 GT

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8500 GT Radeon R7 M360
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2007 2015
Code Name G86 Oland
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 450 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 45 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 3600 Mtexels/sec 27000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 1800 Mpixels/sec 9000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 384
Texture Mapping Units 8 24
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type DDR2 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 210 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16, PCI, PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8500 GT

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Radeon R7 M360

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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