GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which has core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360 should in theory be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 465 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 1408 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be much (approximately 89%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23692 (89%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 will be just a bit (approximately 16%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2624 (16%)

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 transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.