GeForce GTX 285 1GB vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features core 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 285 1GB should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		158976 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 86976 (121%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 285 1GB will be quite a bit (more or less 62%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		51840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19840 (62%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 285 1GB is superior to the Radeon R9 M370X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		20736 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7936 (62%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 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 the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 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 potential to reach the maximum fill rate.