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GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 607 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 837 MHz on this card. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6970, which features GPU clock speed of 880 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1536 Stream Processors, 96 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

Radeon HD 6970 3470 points
GeForce GTX 470 2937 points
Difference: 533 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Radeon HD 6970 250 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6970 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 470 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970 176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
Difference: 42080 (31%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 should be much (approximately 149%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970 84480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 50488 (149%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 should be just a bit (more or less 16%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 470, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970 28160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3880 (16%)

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 HD 6970
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 December 2010
Code Name GF100 Cayman XT
Memory 1280 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz 880 MHz
Memory Speed 3348 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 215 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 133920 MB/sec 176000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33992 Mtexels/sec 84480 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24280 Mpixels/sec 28160 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 1536
Texture Mapping Units 56 96
Render Output Units 40 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3000 million 2640 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 470

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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.

Comments

2 Responses to “GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 6970”
Graphic Crad Expert says:

Just a tip to all guys who wrote HD 6970 VS GTX 470.....WHY THE FUCK DID U ASK SO IDIOT QUESTIONS???....HD 6970 is much better than GTX 470,and even it was just a bit all we know GTX 470 can reach about 105-110+
thing which isn't cool!!!!

NoVa says:

Hell what are you talking about? not everyone knows all the manufacturers designations by heart!

Also, try to write in understandable english when posting on the web, or just stop it, because your comments aren't productive in any way

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