Radeon HD 3850 512MB vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which features core speeds of 1015 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M375X should be 36% faster than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB		52992 MB/sec
	Difference: 19008 (36%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375X is quite a bit (approximately 280%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB		10688 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29912 (280%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375X is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB		10688 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5552 (52%)

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's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.