Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which features GPU clock speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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 570		12108 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 352 (3%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 9 (3%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		750 h/s
Radeon RX 570		600 h/s
	Difference: 150 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 570 will be 9% faster than the Radeon RX 470 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be quite a bit (about 26%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30976 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7744 (26%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.