GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 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

In theory, the GeForce GTX 470 will be 17% faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a lot (approximately 121%) better 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 a lot (about 29%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that 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 colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.