GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1630 in general. (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 small bit (approximately 10%) faster with regards to 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 will be quite a bit (more or less 66%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics 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 Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.