GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this specific 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

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB		115200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (60%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB should be just a bit (more or less 18%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5800 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 2GB is superior to the Radeon R9 M370X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8800 (69%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.