GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
GeForce 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 3842 (221%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be much better than the GeForce 940M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1020%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be much (more or less 143%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36672 (143%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is superior to the GeForce 940M, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22624 (264%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many 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.