Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 285, which has core speeds of 918 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs 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 R9 285		8500 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 2918 (52%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 285		18 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (20%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be a little bit superior to the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 is much (approximately 65%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40416 (65%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1824 (6%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, 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 in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.