GeForce GTX 965M 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 memory runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M		60 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 370 4G should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 965M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 115200 (180%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be just a bit (about 3%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 965M. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		60416 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1984 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the GeForce GTX 965M, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (3%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.