Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700, which comes with a clock speed of 1465 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 279552 (156%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be much (about 238%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 148560 (238%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is a lot (more or less 201%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.