Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1650 MHz on this model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 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

Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 60 (29%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		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 470 4GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 4GB is 18% faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (18%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB will be much (more or less 90%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56128 (90%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a small bit (about 5%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1568 (5%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.