GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which comes with clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
	Difference: 20 (7%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (42%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 4GB should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 14592 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB should be just a bit (about 9%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10096 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be a lot (more or less 144%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42656 (144%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.