GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950 will be 561% faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 89728 (561%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be quite a bit (about 82%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22152 (82%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23768 (264%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out 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 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.