GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which comes with clock speeds of 1015 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M375X should be a lot faster than the GeForce 8800 GS in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 33600 (88%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375X will be much (about 54%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14200 (54%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375X is superior to the GeForce 8800 GS, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9640 (146%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.