Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which features a clock frequency of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 should be 84% quicker than the Radeon RX 560 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 96512 (84%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a lot (more or less 58%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43328 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10832 (58%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.