GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1650 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 4GB should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 82944 (65%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB should be a lot (about 125%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 65920 (125%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB will be a small bit (about 13%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3328 (13%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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