GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (65%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is much (more or less 71%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26000 (71%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is quite a bit (approximately 50%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10400 (50%)

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 transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.