GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which features a clock frequency of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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

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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 570 should in theory be a small bit superior to the GeForce GTX 980 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be a little bit (approximately 4%) better at AF 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 screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is the winner, and very much so. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.