Radeon HD 5750 512MB vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M275X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M275X		50 Watts
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		86 Watts
	Difference: 36 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5750 512MB, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M275X in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 512MB		73600 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M275X will be much (about 43%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5750 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		25200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10800 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M275X is a lot (more or less 29%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 5750 512MB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		11200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (29%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.