GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 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 260 Core 216		202 Watts
	Difference: 102 Watts (102%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 should theoretically perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		111888 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 7888 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (approximately 22%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		41472 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8928 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is a bit (approximately 4%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 672 (4%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.