Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has a clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 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 HD 7950		7731 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 2149 (38%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950		235 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 25 (12%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950		21 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (82%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7950 is 34% quicker than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 60800 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 should be much (approximately 44%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27200 (44%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5600 (22%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out 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 card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.