GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M370X, which has core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 SE should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is a small bit (approximately 3%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 800 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 SE should be much (approximately 63%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M370X, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses 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 processed per 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.