Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has a core clock frequency of 1605 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (105%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 279552 (156%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be a lot (about 312%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194400 (312%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 229%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71520 (229%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its 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 clock 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.