Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M270X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M270X, which comes with a core clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M270X should in theory be much superior to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (463%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M270X should be much (about 480%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X		29000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24000 (480%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M270X is much (about 364%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X		11600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		2500 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9100 (364%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.