Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 680		7650 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 2068 (37%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 680 should be a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is a lot (approximately 106%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is a bit (about 3%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (3%)

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 transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could 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 the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.