In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 370 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition.

The R7 260X has a 105 MHz higher core clock speed than the Radeon R7 370, but the Radeon R7 370 has 8 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the Radeon R7 370 exhibits a 1.5 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the R7 260X. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 260X has a 105 MHz higher core clock speed than the Radeon R7 370, but the Radeon R7 370 has 16 more Render Output Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the Radeon R7 370 exhibits a 13.1 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R7 260X. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon R7 370 was released over a year more recently than the R7 260X, and so the Radeon R7 370 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 370 has 1024 MB more video memory than the R7 260X, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the Radeon R7 370 also has superior memory performance overall.

The Radeon R7 370 has 83.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 260X, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon R7 370 is much better than the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 370 has 1024 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition has 896. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon R7 370 is 849 and the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 784. The Radeon R7 370 having 65 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Radeon R7 370 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 370 requires 110 Watts to run and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition requires 105 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the Radeon R7 370 and a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 260X. The Radeon R7 370 requires 5 Watts more than the R7 260X to run. The difference is not significant enough for the Radeon R7 370 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the R7 260X.