Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X will be 44% quicker than the Radeon R9 M370X overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be quite a bit (about 93%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29600 (93%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be quite a bit (approximately 38%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (38%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.