Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which features core speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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.

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Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (69%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 470 4GB should in theory be a little bit better than the Geforce GTX 680 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 18944 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is a small bit (approximately 9%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10240 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be a little bit (about 9%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2560 (9%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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