GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 4G will be 1144% faster than the GeForce 930M overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 164800 (1144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a lot (more or less 180%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40128 (180%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a lot (approximately 320%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 930M, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23776 (320%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.