GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 4G should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (65%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a lot (approximately 71%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26000 (71%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be a lot (about 50%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10400 (50%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.