GeForce GTS 450 1GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all of 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 as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTS 450 1GB should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB		57728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41728 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is a bit (approximately 8%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		25056 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1944 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTS 450 1GB is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB		12528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3528 (39%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.