GeForce GTS 150 vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1015 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this particular card. 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M375X should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTS 150 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 150		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 150 should be a bit (more or less 17%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M375X. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150		47360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6760 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375X is superior to the GeForce GTS 150, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 150		11840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4400 (37%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.