GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which features GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
	Difference: 7369 (168%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 13 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 99 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (39%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a lot (more or less 170%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 74608 (170%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a little bit (approximately 1%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 570, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per 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 better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.