Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which comes with clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 460 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is quite a bit (about 91%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is superior to the Radeon R9 M370X, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the 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 speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.