Compare any two graphics cards:
Radeon HD 3470 256MB vs Radeon R9 M270X
IntroThe Radeon HD 3470 256MB uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The DDR2 memory runs at a frequency of 950 MHz on this particular model. It features 40(8x5) SPUs as well as 4 TAUs and 4 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M270X, which has a core clock frequency of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksMemory BandwidthPerformance-wise, the Radeon R9 M270X should theoretically be much better than the Radeon HD 3470 256MB in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R9 M270X will be quite a bit (approximately 806%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3470 256MB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M270X is the winner, by far. (explain)
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
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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 a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video 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 colour ROPs by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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