GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M375, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1015 MHz, and 4096 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1100 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 950 should be 200% quicker than the Radeon R9 M375 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
	Difference: 70528 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is a lot (more or less 21%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M375. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8552 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16528 (102%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.