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GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 features a GPU core speed of 607 MHz, and the 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 837 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is made up of 448 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Difference: 135 Watts (169%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should in theory be a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 19232 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a lot (more or less 121%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 41208 (121%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be quite a bit (approximately 29%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5480 (29%)

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 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 May 2017
Code Name GF100 Baffin
Memory 1280 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 3348 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 215 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 133920 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33992 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24280 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 1024
Texture Mapping Units 56 64
Render Output Units 40 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 3000 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 470

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Radeon RX 560

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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