GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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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 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 3517 (86%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 56 (57%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is much (approximately 43%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21728 (43%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19264 (115%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.