GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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 970M		7520 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 1938 (35%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 370 2G should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (87%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a bit (approximately 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11520 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be much (approximately 42%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13152 (42%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.