Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with a core clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
Radeon R7 250X		2860 points
	Difference: 2722 (95%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 250X in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 107200 (149%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is quite a bit (about 56%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22400 (56%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (more or less 95%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 250X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15200 (95%)

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: 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 is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.