GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M380, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M380 should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti will be a lot (approximately 48%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19392 (48%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M380 is just a bit (approximately 8%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1152 (8%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.