Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has a clock speed of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 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.

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Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 680 will be 7% faster than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is a lot (approximately 106%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (106%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.