GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has clock 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 130		75 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be much faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 167200 (1393%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be quite a bit (approximately 420%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 50400 (420%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is superior to the GeForce GT 130, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23200 (290%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 get to the max fill rate.