GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a clock frequency of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is 800% faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (800%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be much (approximately 280%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75480 (280%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12960 (144%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.