Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
	Difference: 12 (7%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7850		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (31%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G should be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 7850 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be a little bit (approximately 13%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the Radeon HD 7850, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (13%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's 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 card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.