GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M375X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1015 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1125 MHz on this specific card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M375X should theoretically be just a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be just a bit (approximately 8%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 M375X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3240 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1296 (8%)

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 over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.