GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M365X, which features clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 M365X should be much faster than the GeForce GT 310 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X is quite a bit (about 685%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32288 (685%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be a lot (about 528%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 310, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12444 (528%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.