Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1125 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7950 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M365X in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 168000 (233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 should be much (about 142%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52600 (142%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 should be much (more or less 73%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 M365X, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10800 (73%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one 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 graphics 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 most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.