GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70016 (438%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a lot (more or less 147%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39816 (147%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24408 (271%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics 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 the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill 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 reach the max fill rate.