GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which comes with core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M370X, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the GeForce 9800 GTX+ overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		70400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ is much (more or less 48%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX+		47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15232 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M370X is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		11808 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.