GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

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

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 2547 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be a little bit better than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 10688 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be a bit (about 7%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3760 (7%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 158%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26528 (158%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant 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.