GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which has a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 470 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 61920 (86%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be a small bit (about 6%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1992 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is superior to the Radeon R9 M370X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11480 (90%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.