GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (more or less 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

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, and very much so. (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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.