GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has a GPU core clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, 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 970		10867 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 5285 (95%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 52 (25%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 970 will be 25% faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is quite a bit (more or less 75%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46800 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is a lot (approximately 115%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36000 (115%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.