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GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 295 makes use of a 55 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 999 MHz on this particular model. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 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 295 289 Watts
Difference: 179 Watts (163%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 295 should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 223776 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 179200 MB/sec
Difference: 44576 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 will be much (more or less 48%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29760 (48%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 will be a little bit (about 3%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1056 (3%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 295 Radeon R7 370 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 8, 2009 June 2015
Code Name G200b Trinidad
Memory 896 MB (x2) 4096 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz (x2) 975 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz (x2) 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 289 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 223776 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 92160 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32256 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 (x2) 1024
Texture Mapping Units 80 (x2) 64
Render Output Units 28 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit (x2) 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1400 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 295

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Radeon R7 370 4G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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