GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTX		155 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 is 20% faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (approximately 37%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GTX. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		36800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (approximately 22%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GTX, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		13800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3000 (22%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.