Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a core clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 670		7351 points
	Difference: 4405 (60%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 13 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the Geforce GTX 670 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 19200 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a little bit (approximately 16%) more effective at AF than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16048 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 352 (1%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred 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 memory, it should 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.