GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 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 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 189 Watts (189%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 295 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 119776 (115%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 should be quite a bit (approximately 83%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41760 (83%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is a lot (more or less 92%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15456 (92%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.