GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has a core clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 50944 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be a bit (about 19%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9792 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4896 (19%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.