Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which has a core clock frequency of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
	Difference: 87 (48%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
	Difference: 10 (59%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 4GB should be a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (18%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB will be a lot (about 90%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56128 (90%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be just a bit (about 5%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1568 (5%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.