GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 264000 (367%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a lot (more or less 450%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 144000 (450%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 650%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M370X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83200 (650%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.