GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 17984 (21%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a lot (about 33%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16416 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be much (more or less 99%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16608 (99%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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 high resolutions.

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

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