GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs Radeon R9 M390X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M390X, which features GPU core speed of 723 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M390X		125 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		244 Watts
	Difference: 119 Watts (95%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 580 3GB should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 M390X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB		192384 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M390X		160000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32384 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M390X should be a lot (approximately 87%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M390X		92544 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43136 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 3GB is superior to the Radeon R9 M390X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB		37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M390X		23136 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13920 (60%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 per 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 higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.