GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

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

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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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980M will be 23% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M will be much (about 98%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980M is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by a large margin. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.