Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which comes with core speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 HD 7950		235 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 52 (28%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950		21 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (82%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7950 will be 34% faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 60800 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 is much (more or less 44%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27200 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be much (more or less 22%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7950, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5600 (22%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.