GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be much (approximately 100%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31200 (100%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be a lot (more or less 50%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 460 SE, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.