GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which features core clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 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 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 570 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be quite a bit (about 37%) faster with regards to texture 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 is much (about 80%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 570, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.