GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with core 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

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 3685 (194%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 80704 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be much (approximately 117%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33600 (117%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be quite a bit (more or less 44%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (44%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.