GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 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 570		12108 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 1241 (11%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
	Difference: 36 (14%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 570 should be 2% faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 5376 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be a lot (approximately 37%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40304 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be a lot (approximately 80%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 570, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29824 (80%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.