GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which features a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 768 SPUs, 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

Radeon R7 360		4110 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 1080 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24128 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a bit (approximately 11%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5040 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 should be a lot (more or less 54%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9120 (54%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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