Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 570, which has a clock speed of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 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 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 570 will be 9% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be much (about 26%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is the winner, and very much so. (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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.