Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 is made up of 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 680		7650 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 2068 (37%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 680, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be much (about 106%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be a bit (about 3%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (3%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.