GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 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
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 626 (13%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 134 Watts (122%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 580 should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13184 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be much (approximately 26%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12992 (26%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 580 should be just a bit (more or less 19%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5856 (19%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.