GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 29 (19%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (55%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G is 60% faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 67200 (60%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a small bit (more or less 16%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9728 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is just a bit (about 16%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4864 (16%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.