GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features a clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 954 (17%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (50%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 55 (35%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be 69% quicker than the GeForce GTX 950 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 73472 (69%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (more or less 27%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13248 (27%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.