GeForce 930M vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M370X, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 57600 (400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is quite a bit (more or less 44%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9728 (44%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M370X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5376 (72%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at 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 the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.