GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which has GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 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

GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 6418 (55%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 147 (51%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		750 h/s
GeForce GTX 1070		475 h/s
	Difference: 275 (58%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 will be 24% quicker than the Radeon RX 470 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 50944 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a lot (about 52%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62192 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is superior to the Radeon RX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66752 (225%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many 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.