Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with GPU core speed of 800 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also features 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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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

The Radeon R9 290X should in theory perform a lot 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 should be much (about 126%) faster with regards to AF 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 screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 290X is superior to the Radeon R7 370 4G, and very much so. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.