GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 179 Watts (163%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 295 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44576 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 should be quite a bit (about 48%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29760 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1056 (3%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.