Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has a core clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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

Geforce GTX 680		7650 points
Radeon R7 370 2G		5582 points
	Difference: 2068 (37%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 370 2G		15 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 680 should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be much (more or less 106%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (106%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (3%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can 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 Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.