GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 4G is 1% faster than the GeForce GTX 480 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 1792 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a lot (approximately 49%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20400 (49%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2400 (8%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over 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 type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.