GeForce GT 310 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310		31 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 79 Watts (255%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 2G should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 310 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1020%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be quite a bit (about 1224%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57688 (1224%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is quite a bit (more or less 1224%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 310, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28844 (1224%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.