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GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 features a GPU clock speed of 1126 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised 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 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

The GeForce GTX 980, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is a lot (approximately 22%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 should be a lot (more or less 143%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 470, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 980 Radeon RX 470
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 August 2016
Code Name GM204-400 Polaris 10
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1126 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 165 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 144128 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72064 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2048
Texture Mapping Units 128 128
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5200 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 980

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Radeon RX 470

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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