Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which features core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 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

Radeon R9 290X		10609 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 5027 (90%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 159 (76%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		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 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 290X should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X should be much (approximately 126%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78400 (126%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 applied per second.

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