GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which has a GPU core clock speed of 926 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
	Difference: 283 (105%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (35%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		750 h/s
GeForce GTX 1080		475 h/s
	Difference: 275 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1080 should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 116480 (55%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be a lot (approximately 117%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 138592 (117%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73216 (247%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure 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 card will be at 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant 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.