GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M370X, which has core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 460 should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 should be a small bit (more or less 18%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5800 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 will be quite a bit (approximately 27%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3400 (27%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.