Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has a clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
Radeon HD 7850		5200 points
	Difference: 382 (7%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
	Difference: 39 (23%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7850		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 370 2G should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon HD 7850 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a bit (about 13%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (13%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.