GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs 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 along with 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 4G should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 121600 (211%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be quite a bit (more or less 86%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28800 (86%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be much (approximately 225%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GT 1GB, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21600 (225%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.