GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 255 Watts (232%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 590 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 149120 (83%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be a lot (about 25%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15296 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 is quite a bit (more or less 87%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27072 (87%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.