GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 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.

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, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be much (approximately 27%) better 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, but not by far. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.