GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has a core clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 255 Watts (232%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 590, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 149120 (83%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 will be quite a bit (more or less 25%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15296 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 will be much (about 87%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27072 (87%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.