GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1650 MHz on this specific card. 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 889 (8%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
	Difference: 27 (10%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 970 should theoretically be a small bit superior to the Radeon RX 470 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be a bit (about 9%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9328 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37568 (127%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's 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 better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.