GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which has GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be 78% quicker than the Radeon R9 M370X in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56256 (78%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be a lot (approximately 64%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20608 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be a lot (about 106%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M370X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13504 (106%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant 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 max fill rate.