GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 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 should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is quite a bit (approximately 131%) better at anisotropic 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 running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is a better choice, 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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.