GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB 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 memory running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		110 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 is 20% faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB will be a small bit (about 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8992 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be just a bit (about 13%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1952 (13%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.