GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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.

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (70%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 28 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G is 69% quicker than the GeForce GTX 950 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 73472 (69%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is much (about 27%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13248 (27%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a bit (more or less 5%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1568 (5%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.