GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, 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 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 4G should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 80704 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a lot (about 117%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33600 (117%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is much (about 44%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (44%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.