GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with a core clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 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 590		6680 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 1098 (20%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 255 Watts (232%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 590 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 149120 (83%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be a lot (approximately 25%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15296 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 is much (about 87%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27072 (87%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number 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 card will be at handling 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 can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.