GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which features a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 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 1080		21942 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 16360 (293%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 343 (163%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 148480 (83%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be a lot (more or less 312%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194720 (312%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (more or less 230%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should 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 AA, HDR 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 number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.