Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480, which features a clock frequency of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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

Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 97 (53%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 10 (59%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 82944 (46%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a lot (approximately 158%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98880 (158%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a small bit (approximately 15%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4640 (15%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 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 max fill rate.