Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which has a clock speed of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 64512 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is much (approximately 21%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12800 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12400 (66%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.