GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with core speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. 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 8800 GTS (G92) will be 288% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 46080 (288%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be quite a bit (more or less 54%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14600 (54%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1400 (16%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.