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GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 860M uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 797 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1125 MHz on this model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M365X, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M should be a lot (more or less 107%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M 76512 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X 37000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 39512 (107%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M365X is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M 12752 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2048 (16%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 860M Radeon R9 M365X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2014 2015
Code Name GM107 Cape Verde
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 797 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 45 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 76512 Mtexels/sec 37000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12752 Mpixels/sec 14800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1152 640
Texture Mapping Units 96 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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