GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M365X, which comes with clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 SE, in theory, should be much 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 just a bit (about 19%) better 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 running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is superior to the Radeon R9 M365X, by a large margin. (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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.