GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1650 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 5364 (46%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 136 (47%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should theoretically be much better than the Radeon RX 470 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (approximately 48%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57472 (48%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 224%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 470, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (224%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.