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GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 607 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 837 MHz on this specific card. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 40 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with a clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 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 550 3507 points
GeForce GTX 470 2937 points
Difference: 570 (19%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Difference: 165 Watts (330%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 470 will be 17% faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 19232 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 will be just a bit (approximately 4%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1208 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 should be much (about 38%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 550, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6680 (38%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 470 Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 April 2017
Code Name GF100 Polaris 12
Memory 1280 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 3348 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 215 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 133920 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33992 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24280 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 512
Texture Mapping Units 56 32
Render Output Units 40 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 3000 million 2200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

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 one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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