GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which has a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 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 Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 90 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 470 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is quite a bit (about 80%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94832 (80%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13040 (44%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.