GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with core clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 is 617% faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (approximately 101%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 should be quite a bit (approximately 381%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.