GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1625 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 970M		7520 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 3410 (83%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should be 8% faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a lot (approximately 47%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23520 (47%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970M is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27552 (164%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved 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 type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.