GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare 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 bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M370X should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GS overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 33600 (88%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X should be much (approximately 21%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5600 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is much (approximately 94%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GS, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6200 (94%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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