GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which features GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 768 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 189 Watts (189%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 295 should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 119776 (115%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 should be a lot (more or less 83%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41760 (83%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is a lot (about 92%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 360, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15456 (92%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of 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 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 get to the max fill rate.