GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which features a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 4129 (54%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 135 (88%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 15 (136%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 99200 (89%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a lot (more or less 64%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46400 (64%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6432 (22%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.