GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which features 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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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 980M		9476 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 5366 (131%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980M		155 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 57 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980M, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M should be much (more or less 98%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49248 (98%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M is quite a bit (about 295%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49632 (295%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.