Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 570, which features a core clock speed of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
Geforce GTX 680		7650 points
	Difference: 4458 (58%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 10 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be a small bit faster than the Geforce GTX 680 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 37120 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a little bit (about 16%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 680. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20736 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a small bit (about 16%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 680, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5184 (16%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.