GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1625 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 17832 (434%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 455 (464%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 10 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (80%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 223680 (215%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is a lot (about 410%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 206720 (410%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 86048 (512%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied per second. This is worked out 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.