GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which has 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 is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, 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 570		4387 points
	Difference: 7369 (168%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 13 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 99 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 will be 39% faster than the GeForce GTX 570 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 59200 (39%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is much (about 170%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 74608 (170%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 352 (1%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.