GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1650 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1937 MHz on this particular model. It features 3072 SPUs as well as 192 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.