Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which comes with core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 small 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%) better at texture 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

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is the winner, but only just. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.