GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has core speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 179 Watts (163%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 295 should be 25% faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44576 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 will be much (more or less 48%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29760 (48%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 should be a little bit (about 3%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1056 (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.

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

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