GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 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 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 4G should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 92800 (107%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is quite a bit (more or less 65%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24600 (65%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be quite a bit (approximately 93%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 460, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15000 (93%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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 potential to reach the max fill rate.