GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 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 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 107 (58%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 17408 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be quite a bit (about 74%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46032 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41088 (132%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.