GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 is 21% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 17984 (21%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be quite a bit (approximately 33%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16416 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16608 (99%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.