GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which features a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 360 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 97600 (1525%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be quite a bit (more or less 2700%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48600 (2700%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a lot (approximately 1767%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15900 (1767%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.