GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be a little bit better than the GeForce GTX 1630 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 5696 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 will be a bit (more or less 10%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5280 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1630 is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11040 (66%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.