GeForce GT 315 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 315 will be 58% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 315		25280 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 9280 (58%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be quite a bit (about 170%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 315. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 315		10000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17000 (170%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be quite a bit (about 80%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 315, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 315		5000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4000 (80%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.