GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all 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 is made up of 768 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		106 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 is 8% faster than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be quite a bit (about 166%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31440 (166%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is superior to the Radeon R7 360, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2160 (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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