GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 960 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (56%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be quite a bit (approximately 125%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40128 (125%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a lot (about 182%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M370X, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23264 (182%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.