GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units 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.

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470 4GB		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (35%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470 4GB		270 Sol/s
	Difference: 138 (51%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 980 should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be a lot (approximately 22%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25600 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is much (approximately 143%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42432 (143%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.