GeForce 9400 GT 256MB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which has GPU core speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M360, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9400 GT 256MB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 9400 GT 256MB		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is a lot (more or less 514%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9400 GT 256MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9400 GT 256MB		4400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22600 (514%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be a lot (more or less 309%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9400 GT 256MB, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9400 GT 256MB		2200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6800 (309%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.