GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 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.

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (18%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 225 (123%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 is 25% faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be a lot (more or less 131%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81728 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 4G, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40864 (131%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.