Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features core clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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 HD 7850		5200 points
	Difference: 382 (7%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
	Difference: 39 (23%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7850		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 2G should in theory be just a bit superior to the Radeon HD 7850 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a bit (approximately 13%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (13%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 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 number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.