GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which has GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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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

The Radeon R7 360, in theory, should be a bit faster 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 should be a bit (approximately 10%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be much (about 66%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.