GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which uses 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 particular model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) should be 500% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be a lot (more or less 42%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8040 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is a lot (approximately 111%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9960 (111%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.