Radeon R9 M365X vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470 should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M365X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 139200 (193%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be a lot (approximately 220%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81528 (220%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is superior to the Radeon R9 M365X, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14832 (100%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.