GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs 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

GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 12592 (226%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 226 (108%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 82944 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is quite a bit (about 190%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 118320 (190%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be much (more or less 209%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 65184 (209%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.