GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units 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 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (95%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 4G, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 45280 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a lot (about 84%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28408 (84%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6920 (29%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.