Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which features a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 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

Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 186 (102%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (71%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 140800 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X will be quite a bit (approximately 126%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78400 (126%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20000 (64%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.