Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features core speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 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.

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Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (13%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (68%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7870 XT should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 42%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26400 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		29600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1600 (5%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.