Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which features clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6970 should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 104000 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 should be a lot (more or less 164%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52480 (164%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 is a lot (about 120%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15360 (120%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.