GeForce GTS 150 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a core clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTS 150, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150		32000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 150 is a lot (approximately 75%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150		47360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20360 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 150 will be much (more or less 32%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M360, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150		11840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2840 (32%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.