GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 90 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be much superior to the Radeon RX 470 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 124800 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be much (approximately 80%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94832 (80%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13040 (44%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.