Synthetic Benchmarks

So to compere the Asus R7 370 Strix to the Sapphire 370 as well as the GTX 950 I ran it through our synthetic benchmark suite. This consists of three different 3DMark Fire Strike benchmarks that cover a ran of resolutions and graphics settings as well as two Unigine engine benchmarks, Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and the newer Valley Benchmark. In 3Dmark the higher overclock speed made a big difference in comparison to the Sapphire Nitro. The jump in performance wasn’t enough to bring the 370 up to match the speed of the GTX 950 on the performance setting but it did help. On the Extreme setting the gap is even less due to the GTX 950’s lower memory bandwidth and memory capacity. In the Ultra benchmark this showed even more when the R7 370 passes the GTX 950. In the two Unigine benchmarks the higher clock speed made no difference, in fact the results came in slightly lower. This is still just a few FPS away from the GTX 950 though.