Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which features a core clock speed of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 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 570		12108 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 352 (3%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 9 (3%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		750 h/s
Radeon RX 570		600 h/s
	Difference: 150 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 570 is 9% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is much (approximately 26%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30976 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is superior to the Radeon RX 470, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7744 (26%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant 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.