GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has core 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 ROPs.

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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 be 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 should be quite a bit (about 75%) faster with regards to 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 a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.