GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M380, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1630 should be a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 M380 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2304 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be much (approximately 39%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15680 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be much (approximately 74%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M380, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11840 (74%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.