Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with 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 made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, 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

Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (21%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 88 (93%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 4G should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a small bit (about 1%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 800 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be a lot (approximately 77%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (77%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.