GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 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
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (169%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should in theory perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 19232 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is much (about 121%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41208 (121%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 should be much (more or less 29%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5480 (29%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within 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 bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.