GeForce GTX 285 1GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 285 1GB should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		158976 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 142976 (894%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 285 1GB is much (approximately 92%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		51840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24840 (92%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 285 1GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		20736 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11736 (130%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.