Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with a clock frequency 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 is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 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.

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Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 680 should be 7% quicker than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 should be quite a bit (more or less 106%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (106%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (3%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.