Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which features GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

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Radeon R9 380 2G		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 2G should be a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G should be a lot (more or less 74%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46240 (74%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a bit (about 1%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 160 (1%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip 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 ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.