GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which has GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 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 in theory be quite a bit 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 is quite a bit (approximately 48%) faster with regards to AF 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 (about 224%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 470, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.