GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 101 (48%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 6777 (121%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be a small bit superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 17408 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (approximately 93%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58080 (93%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.