GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that 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 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 4800 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (more or less 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14000 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4000 (24%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.