GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 4G should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 80896 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a little bit (approximately 12%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6720 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a small bit (about 12%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1630, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (12%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 amount of 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 number of ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.