GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 480 should be 1009% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 161408 (1009%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 is a lot (about 56%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15000 (56%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24600 (273%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.