GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which features GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 768 Stream Processors, 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

The Radeon R7 360 should in theory be just 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 is a small bit (approximately 10%) faster with regards to 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

The GeForce GTX 1630 is quite a bit (about 66%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.