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Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB vs Radeon R9 M395X
IntroThe Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 825 MHz. The GDDR4 RAM runs at a frequency of 1126 MHz on this specific model. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 16 ROPs.Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M395X, which features a clock frequency of 723 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksMemory BandwidthAs far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M395X should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R9 M395X should be a lot (about 251%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB is superior to the Radeon R9 M395X, but only just. (explain)
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. One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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