GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which has a core clock frequency of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 970M should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be quite a bit (more or less 174%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46920 (174%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M will be much (approximately 393%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35352 (393%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.