GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		210 Sol/s
	Difference: 101 (48%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 6777 (121%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 17408 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (more or less 93%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58080 (93%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (about 132%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41088 (132%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.