GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which comes with 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 is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
	Difference: 155 (57%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be 59% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (more or less 48%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57472 (48%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (more or less 224%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (224%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (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 its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.