Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 84 (46%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (47%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 4GB should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 50176 (28%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is a lot (approximately 158%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98880 (158%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is a bit (more or less 15%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4640 (15%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 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 get to the max fill rate.