Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 279552 (156%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be quite a bit (about 238%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 148560 (238%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62560 (201%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.