GeForce GTX 880M vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 64 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 880M		6360 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 778 (14%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 880M		130 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G is 40% quicker than the GeForce GTX 880M in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 880M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 51200 (40%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M should be a lot (more or less 96%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M		122112 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59712 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 880M		30528 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 672 (2%)

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 over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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