GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which comes with a core clock speed of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 SE should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M365X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 36800 (51%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X is a little bit (approximately 19%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5800 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6000 (41%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.