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Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon RX 470
IntroThe Radeon HD 7870 XT makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which features 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 features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.
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BenchmarksThese 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.
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Memory BandwidthPerformance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 should in theory be a small bit better than the Radeon HD 7870 XT overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon RX 470 should be quite a bit (approximately 33%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7870 XT. (explain)
Pixel RateThe Radeon RX 470 is a small bit (more or less 0%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7870 XT, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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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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