GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which has a core clock frequency of 1015 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M375X should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M overall. (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%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M375X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be a small bit (more or less 8%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M375X, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.