GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features a clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features 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 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (95%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G will be 34% quicker than the GeForce GTX 470 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 45280 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be much (about 84%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28408 (84%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6920 (29%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.