GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M365X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M365X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56128 (78%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 should be a lot (about 23%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8360 (23%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 should be a lot (approximately 75%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M365X, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11120 (75%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.