GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which features clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 GT 450 (OEM)		106 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be much (more or less 166%) faster with regards to AF 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

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) should be a bit (more or less 13%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.