GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 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
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 626 (13%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 134 Watts (122%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 580 should theoretically perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13184 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (more or less 26%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12992 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 580 is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5856 (19%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.