GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which features core clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 1241 (11%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
	Difference: 36 (14%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 970 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 5376 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be much (about 37%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40304 (37%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29824 (80%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.