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Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon R7 370 2G
IntroThe Radeon HD 6970 uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 880 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this specific card. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.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 memory works at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.
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BenchmarksThese 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.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthIn theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be 2% quicker than the Radeon HD 6970 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon HD 6970 is much (more or less 35%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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