GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which has core speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 65600 (1025%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X is much (more or less 1956%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35200 (1956%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be much (about 1544%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13900 (1544%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.