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GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 features a core clock speed of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 837 MHz. It also makes use of a 320-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 448 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 40 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which has a clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380X 9519 points
GeForce GTX 470 2937 points
Difference: 6582 (224%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380X 190 Watts
GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Difference: 25 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380X should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
Difference: 48480 (36%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be much (more or less 265%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 90168 (265%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380X is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6760 (28%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 470 Radeon R9 380X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 November 2015
Code Name GF100 Tonga XT
Memory 1280 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 3348 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 215 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 133920 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33992 Mtexels/sec 124160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24280 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 2048
Texture Mapping Units 56 128
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 470

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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