Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB will be much (more or less 91%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29040 (91%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB is a lot (about 36%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4640 (36%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory 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 faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video 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 number of Render Output Units 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.