Geforce GTX 690 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 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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 690		13111 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 1355 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 690 should be 82% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 173312 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (more or less 98%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115712 (98%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28928 (98%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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