GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which has a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M370X, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M is just a bit (approximately 14%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4560 (14%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M will be a bit (more or less 14%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1824 (14%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.