Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which has clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 590, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 82944 (46%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a lot (about 239%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 149136 (239%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15808 (51%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock 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 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.