GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 768 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		171 Watts
	Difference: 71 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		111888 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 7888 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be quite a bit (approximately 22%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		41472 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8928 (22%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the 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 bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.