GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1650 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 980 should in theory be a bit superior to 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 will be quite a bit (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 running with a high screen 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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.