GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which has clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 36800 (51%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is just a bit (more or less 14%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4400 (14%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) will be much (approximately 63%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (63%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.