Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1650 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs 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 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

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 will be 10% quicker than the Geforce GTX 670 overall, due to its higher data rate. (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 bit (about 16%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.