GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has core clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 2045 (37%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 56 (36%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be 60% faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 67200 (60%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be a bit (approximately 16%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9728 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a bit (approximately 16%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4864 (16%)

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 past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.