GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 570		4387 points
	Difference: 1195 (27%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 109 Watts (99%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G will be 18% quicker than the GeForce GTX 570 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 27200 (18%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be much (more or less 42%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18480 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be a bit (about 7%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 570, and also capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1920 (7%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.