GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which has 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 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 10186 (87%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 264 (91%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (30%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		750 h/s
GeForce GTX 1080		475 h/s
	Difference: 275 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon RX 470 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 116480 (55%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is quite a bit (approximately 117%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 138592 (117%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be quite a bit (approximately 247%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 470, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73216 (247%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.