Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features clock 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 690		13111 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 7529 (135%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 690 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 205312 (115%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (approximately 275%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 171840 (275%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27360 (88%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.