GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with a GPU core 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 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 470		2937 points
	Difference: 9171 (312%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 570 should be 71% quicker than the GeForce GTX 470 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 95456 (71%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is quite a bit (more or less 340%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115512 (340%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13096 (54%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one 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 - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.