GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce GTX 465 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 1408 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be quite a bit (approximately 89%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23692 (89%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 is a bit (more or less 16%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2624 (16%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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