Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380X, which features a core clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 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 380X		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 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380X, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X will be much (approximately 99%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61760 (99%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a little bit (approximately 1%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.