GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features a core clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
GeForce 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 3842 (221%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G should in theory be much faster than the GeForce 940M overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1020%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be much (approximately 143%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36672 (143%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be quite a bit (more or less 264%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 940M, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22624 (264%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.