Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

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

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 7767 (139%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 70 (33%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (80%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 480 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 82944 (46%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 will be quite a bit (more or less 158%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98880 (158%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 will be a little bit (more or less 15%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can 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 speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.