Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

Geforce GTX 670		7351 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 1769 (32%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 670 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is a lot (more or less 64%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40080 (64%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1920 (7%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.