GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with core clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 121600 (211%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be much (more or less 86%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28800 (86%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21600 (225%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 ability to get to the max fill rate.