GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has GPU core speed of 1605 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 470 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 324832 (243%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be a lot (more or less 655%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 222808 (655%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78440 (323%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.