GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which features core clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M365X should theoretically perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is a little bit (approximately 18%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6840 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2736 (18%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.