GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which has GPU clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 8800 GS should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22400 (140%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be just a bit (approximately 2%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 600 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M360 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2400 (36%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.