Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features a clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 370 4G should in theory be much better 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 should be a bit (more or less 1%) more effective 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

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 output 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.