GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 7970 (143%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (33%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 198 (94%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is a lot (more or less 131%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81728 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40864 (131%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.