GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which features a core clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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.

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Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 14 (108%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 99 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 4GB will be 39% quicker than the GeForce GTX 570 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (39%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB is quite a bit (approximately 170%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 74608 (170%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 4GB is superior to the GeForce GTX 570, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 352 (1%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels 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 worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.