Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with 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 features 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, 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 HD 7850		5200 points
	Difference: 382 (7%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
	Difference: 39 (23%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7850		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7850 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a small bit (approximately 13%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (13%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.