Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
Geforce GTX 670		7351 points
	Difference: 4405 (60%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 13 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 should perform a little bit faster than the Geforce GTX 670 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 19200 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a bit (more or less 16%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16048 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a little bit (about 1%) better at AA than the Geforce GTX 670, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 352 (1%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.