GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M380, which comes with a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M380 will be 20% quicker than the GeForce GTX 750 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M380 should be much (more or less 23%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (23%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 750 should be a bit (about 2%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 M380, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 320 (2%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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