GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M375X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1015 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M375X, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
	Difference: 9920 (16%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should be just a bit (more or less 2%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M375X. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1000 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375X should be much (about 56%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5840 (56%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 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 applied 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 worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.