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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 970 comes with clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1664 SPUs as well as 104 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970 262 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G 183 Sol/s
Difference: 79 (43%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970 19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G 17 Mh/s
Difference: 2 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G 110 Watts
GeForce GTX 970 145 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 44800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be a lot (approximately 75%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 46800 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is quite a bit (more or less 115%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 36000 (115%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 970 Radeon R7 370 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 June 2015
Code Name GM204-200 Trinidad
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1050 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 109200 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 67200 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1664 1024
Texture Mapping Units 104 64
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5200 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon R7 370 4G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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