GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1125 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M370X is 2% faster than the GeForce GTS 250 1GB in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		70400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB will be much (more or less 48%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15232 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M370X is superior to the GeForce GTS 250 1GB, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		11808 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (8%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.