GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has a clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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

GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 79 (43%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 44800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is a lot (approximately 75%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46800 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is a lot (more or less 115%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36000 (115%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.