GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 1 (0%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (37%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 429 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 14592 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a small bit (about 9%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10096 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be a lot (approximately 144%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 470, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42656 (144%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.