GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1650 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 970M		7520 points
	Difference: 4236 (56%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 470 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 115200 (120%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (more or less 60%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970M. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44608 (60%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be a lot (about 50%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 470, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (50%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.