GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which has a clock speed of 1120 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 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.

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Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (92%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 69 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 4GB should be 51% quicker than the GeForce GTX 570 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 77376 (51%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should be much (more or less 267%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 117360 (267%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB is much (about 22%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 570, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6560 (22%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at 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. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.