Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1605 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (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 quite a bit (about 312%) more effective at 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

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, and very much so. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.