GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this 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 1050		6657 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 2547 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 10688 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is a small bit (approximately 7%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3760 (7%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is quite a bit (more or less 158%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26528 (158%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.