GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which features GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 46400 (81%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 142%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29600 (142%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (62%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. 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 higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.