GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which has a core clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		6013 points
	Difference: 5743 (96%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 will be 47% quicker than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 67200 (47%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a little bit (approximately 16%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16048 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7672 (35%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.