GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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.

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Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 850M		49 Sol/s
	Difference: 134 (273%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 850M		40 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (175%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 4G is 460% quicker than the GeForce GTX 850M in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 147200 (460%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be quite a bit (approximately 78%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 850M. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		35040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27360 (78%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a lot (approximately 123%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 850M, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		14016 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17184 (123%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.