GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 570, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. 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

GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
Radeon RX 570		12108 points
	Difference: 1444 (12%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (30%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
	Difference: 110 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 570 should in theory perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 5376 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a bit (approximately 4%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5376 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34688 (93%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.