GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (approximately 101%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27160 (101%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 381%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M360, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34328 (381%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels 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 clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.