GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which has core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 46400 (81%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (about 50%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16800 (50%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (75%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across 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 RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.