GeForce 8500 GT vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M370X should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce 8500 GT overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (463%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X should be a lot (approximately 789%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8500 GT. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		3600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28400 (789%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M370X is superior to the GeForce 8500 GT, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8500 GT		1800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11000 (611%)

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 over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.