GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has core clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 2252 (68%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 147200 (460%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be quite a bit (more or less 71%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25840 (71%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16576 (113%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.