GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has a core clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 370 (202%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 148480 (83%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (about 312%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194720 (312%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be a lot (about 230%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71648 (230%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's 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 card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.