GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 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.

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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

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 4G should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 850M overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is much (approximately 78%) faster with regards to AF 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 (more or less 123%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 850M, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.