GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M375, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1015 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1100 MHz on this specific card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M375 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
	Difference: 51200 (145%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is a small bit (more or less 7%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2800 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40 (0%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.