Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
Radeon RX 470		11756 points
	Difference: 352 (3%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
	Difference: 9 (3%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		750 h/s
Radeon RX 570		600 h/s
	Difference: 150 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 570 should be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be a lot (more or less 26%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30976 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is superior to the Radeon RX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7744 (26%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 ability to get to the max fill rate.