GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (91%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G will be 24% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 35200 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a lot (approximately 52%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21408 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1920 (7%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it 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 high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.