GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 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 8800 GTX		155 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 should be a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be quite a bit (approximately 37%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GTX. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		36800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (37%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GTX, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		13800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3000 (22%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.