GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs 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 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

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
	Difference: 3025 (118%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 92800 (107%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be quite a bit (approximately 65%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24600 (65%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is quite a bit (approximately 93%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 460, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15000 (93%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus 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 higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.