GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 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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GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 128 (70%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 17408 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (more or less 93%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58080 (93%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be quite a bit (about 132%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 370 4G, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41088 (132%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past 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 RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 amount of pixels the video card can 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 card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.