GeForce GT 340 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340		69 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 41 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 4G should in theory be much better than the GeForce GT 340 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (229%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is much (about 255%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 340. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44800 (255%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26800 (609%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.