Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 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

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 680 should in theory be a little bit better than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is much (approximately 106%) better 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 should be a little bit (approximately 3%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.