GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 889 (8%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
	Difference: 27 (10%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 970 should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon RX 470 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a little bit (about 9%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9328 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the Radeon RX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37568 (127%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card 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 called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.