GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470, which has clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 980		13552 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 1796 (15%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (30%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 119 (41%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 980 is 6% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is much (more or less 22%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25600 (22%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42432 (143%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends 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.