Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470, which features GPU core speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 139200 (193%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be quite a bit (approximately 270%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86528 (270%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be quite a bit (more or less 132%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M370X, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16832 (132%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 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 speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.