Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1015 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M375X should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (463%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375X should be quite a bit (about 712%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35600 (712%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		2500 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13740 (550%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.