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GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 comes with a GPU clock speed of 1126 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX 980 13552 points
Radeon RX 570 12108 points
Difference: 1444 (12%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570 26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980 20 Mh/s
Difference: 6 (30%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 408 Sol/s
Radeon RX 570 298 Sol/s
Difference: 110 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 165 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 570 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 224000 MB/sec
Difference: 5376 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a bit (about 4%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 144128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5376 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 should be quite a bit (about 93%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 570, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570 37376 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 34688 (93%)

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

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GeForce GTX 980

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 980 Radeon RX 570
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2014 April 2017
Code Name GM204-400 Polaris 20
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1126 MHz 1168 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 165 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 224000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 144128 Mtexels/sec 149504 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72064 Mpixels/sec 37376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2048
Texture Mapping Units 128 128
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 5200 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 980

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Radeon RX 570

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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