Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 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

Radeon R9 290		9876 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 4294 (77%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		283 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 73 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290		29 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 14 (93%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 140800 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 will be a lot (approximately 105%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 65600 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20000 (64%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.