Radeon R9 380X vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M275X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M275X		50 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (280%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 380X should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M275X overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 110400 (153%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X will be much (about 245%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M275X. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		36000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88160 (245%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is quite a bit (about 116%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M275X, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		14400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16640 (116%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, 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, High Dynamic Range 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 speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few 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.