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GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a clock frequency of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 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.

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 theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be quite a bit (more or less 52%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering 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%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 470, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1070 Radeon RX 470
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2016 August 2016
Code Name GP104-200 Polaris 10
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 180720 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96384 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1920 2048
Texture Mapping Units 120 128
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 14 nm
Transistors 7200 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1070

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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