GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which comes with a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 61920 (86%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be a bit (approximately 6%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1992 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is superior to the Radeon R9 M370X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11480 (90%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.