GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a core clock frequency of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, 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

GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 10186 (87%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 264 (91%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (30%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

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

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1080 will be 55% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be much (more or less 117%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be quite a bit (approximately 247%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's 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 is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.