Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with core speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 4G should perform a lot 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 is just a bit (approximately 1%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is a better choice, by far. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.