GeForce GTX 275 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which features a core clock speed 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 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 275		219 Watts
	Difference: 119 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 275 should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275		127008 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 23008 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 will be just a bit (more or less 0%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275		50640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 240 (0%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 should be a bit (about 6%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275		17724 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 924 (6%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported 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 it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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