Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which comes with core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units 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 4G		21 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is much (more or less 74%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.