GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs 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 frequency of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be quite a bit (about 170%) more effective at 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

The Radeon RX 470 is a bit (about 1%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 570, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.