GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which features core clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units 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 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 perform quite a bit 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 will be much (more or less 117%) more effective at 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 is much (about 247%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470, and also should be capable of handling 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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.