Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which has core clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 780 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272384 (1702%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 will be a lot (about 514%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 138696 (514%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 is much (approximately 360%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32424 (360%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.