GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which features core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		106 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should be 8% quicker than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (about 166%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31440 (166%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2160 (13%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.