GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with 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 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 4129 (54%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 135 (88%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 15 (136%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 470 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 99200 (89%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (about 64%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46400 (64%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6432 (22%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past 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, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.