GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1650 MHz on this card. 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 470		2937 points
	Difference: 8819 (300%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

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

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 77280 (58%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be a lot (about 249%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84536 (249%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5352 (22%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 applied per second.

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