Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which comes with a clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

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Radeon R9 380 4G		21 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be quite a bit (more or less 74%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46240 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the Radeon R9 380 4G, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 160 (1%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.