GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 1070		18174 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 14064 (342%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 338 (345%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 158144 (152%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a lot (more or less 259%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 130320 (259%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is much (about 474%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 79584 (474%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video 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 number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.