GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M370X, which has core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M370X should be 13% faster than the GeForce GTX 960M overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is much (more or less 37%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11840 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be a lot (approximately 37%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4736 (37%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.