Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (105%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is much (approximately 312%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194400 (312%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be much (more or less 229%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71520 (229%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.