Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon R9 M390X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M390X, which comes with clock speeds of 723 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		50 Watts
Radeon R9 M390X		125 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M390X should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M390X		160000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 131200 (456%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M390X will be much (about 493%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M390X		92544 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76944 (493%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M390X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M390X		23136 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17936 (345%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.