Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with a core clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 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 240		1218 points
	Difference: 4364 (358%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (267%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 2G should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 150400 (522%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (more or less 327%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47800 (327%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25360 (434%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.