GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 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 970		10867 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 5285 (95%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 52 (25%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is a lot (approximately 75%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46800 (75%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36000 (115%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.