GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which features core speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 6418 (55%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 147 (51%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		750 h/s
GeForce GTX 1070		475 h/s
	Difference: 275 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 50944 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be much (about 52%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62192 (52%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be much (more or less 225%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66752 (225%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.