GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M365X, which comes with a clock frequency of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M365X should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 8800 GS in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 33600 (88%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be a lot (approximately 40%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10600 (40%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M365X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8200 (124%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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.