GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 runs at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 570 should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R9 M365X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (111%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 should be just a bit (more or less 19%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6920 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is superior to the Radeon R9 M365X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14480 (98%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.