GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a core clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 352640 (2204%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be quite a bit (more or less 448%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120840 (448%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is a lot (more or less 604%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54360 (604%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.