Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs 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

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 1201 (27%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (7%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 115 (121%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 2G should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a little bit (about 1%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 800 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a lot (more or less 77%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (77%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.