Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 6174 (111%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 79 (38%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (73%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 should be a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (18%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a lot (about 90%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56128 (90%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a little bit (about 5%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range 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 calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.