GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which has GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should perform a small bit faster 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 a lot (about 89%) faster with regards to 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 should be just a bit (approximately 16%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.