GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
	Difference: 41 (15%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		750 h/s
GeForce GTX 1060		430 h/s
	Difference: 320 (74%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 4GB should in theory be a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a bit (approximately 2%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1952 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (approximately 144%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.