Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has GPU 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 Stream Processors, 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

Radeon HD 7870 XT		6390 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 808 (14%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870 XT		15 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (68%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7870 XT should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT is quite a bit (about 42%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26400 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		29600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1600 (5%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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