GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1650 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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 580		4956 points
	Difference: 6800 (137%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 124 Watts (103%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce GTX 580 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 18816 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a lot (more or less 140%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 69120 (140%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 580 will be a lot (more or less 25%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7424 (25%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.