GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (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 little bit (about 16%) better at anisotropic filtering 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

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is the winner, but only just. (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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.