Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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

Geforce GTX 670		7351 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 1769 (32%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 670 should in theory be a small bit better than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is quite a bit (approximately 64%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40080 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a little bit (about 7%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 670, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1920 (7%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 texture units by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.