GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of RX 470 vs 960 among Desktop GPUs

Gaming

Radeon RX 470
7.5
GeForce GTX 960
6.9
GeForce GTX 970
7.6
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

Graphics

Radeon RX 470
6.6
GeForce GTX 960
8.0
GeForce GTX 970
6.7
T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more

Computing

Radeon RX 470
6.9
GeForce GTX 960
6.4
GeForce GTX 970
8.3
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

Performance per Watt

Radeon RX 470
8.1
GeForce GTX 960
8.2
GeForce GTX 970
8.3
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

Value

Radeon RX 470
n.d.
GeForce GTX 960
n.d.
GeForce GTX 970
6.4
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

Noise and Power

Radeon RX 470
9.1
GeForce GTX 960
9.1
GeForce GTX 970
8.8
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more
7.5

Overall Score

Radeon RX 470
7.4
GeForce GTX 960
7.5
GeForce GTX 970
7.7

Winner
AMD Radeon RX 470 

GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon RX 470  based on its benchmarks and compute performance.

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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of Radeon RX 470

Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon RX 470

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Significantly higher memory bandwidth 211.2 GB/s vs 112.2 GB/s Around 90% higher memory bandwidth
Significantly better floating-point performance 4,940 GFLOPS vs 2,308.1 GFLOPS Around 2.2x better floating-point performance
Better PassMark score 7,379 vs 5,813 More than 25% better PassMark score
More memory 4,096 MB vs 2,048 MB 2x more memory
Significantly higher texture rate 154.4 GTexel/s vs 72.1 GTexel/s Around 2.2x higher texture rate
Much better bitcoin mining score 514.65 mHash/s vs 111.95 mHash/s More than 4.5x better bitcoin mining score
Significantly more shading units 2,048 vs 1,024 Twice as many shading units
Significantly more texture mapping units 128 vs 64 Twice as many texture mapping units
Significantly wider memory bus 256 bit vs 128 bit 2x wider memory bus
Higher crysis 3 framerate 48.9 vs 36.1 More than 35% higher crysis 3 framerate
Better sky diver factor score 383.43 vs 358.69 More than 5% better sky diver factor score
Better PassMark direct compute score 3,901 vs 3,046 Around 30% better PassMark direct compute score
Front view of GeForce GTX 960

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960

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Higher clock speed 1,127 MHz vs 926 MHz More than 20% higher clock speed
Higher effective memory clock speed 7,012 MHz vs 6,600 MHz More than 5% higher effective memory clock speed
Higher memory clock speed 1,753 MHz vs 1,650 MHz More than 5% higher memory clock speed

Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 960

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon RX 470
514.65 mHash/s
GeForce GTX 960
111.95 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon RX 470
93.12 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 960
69.13 mPixels/s

Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon RX 470
623.25 frames/s
GeForce GTX 960
780.9 frames/s

Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon RX 470
67.3
GeForce GTX 960
57.4

Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon RX 470
383.43
GeForce GTX 960
358.69

Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon RX 470
20.21
GeForce GTX 960
20.16

Battlefield 4

Radeon RX 470
77
GeForce GTX 960
58

Crysis 3

Radeon RX 470
48.9
GeForce GTX 960
36.1

Comments

Showing 3 comments.
Mehmet Akif Başar (11:49 AM, February 17, 2017)
ı use rx 470 and i5 6 generation = battlefield 1 87 FPS ultra
facial supremacy (02:57 AM, December 3, 2016)
It's odd to see that the 960 performs as well as it does given the fact that there's as much of a difference between the 960 and 470 as there is between the 1080 and the 470 specs wise, but numbers can deceive. The price, which i think is were it is to promote 1060 sales, has never been acceptable for the 960. LOL the 970 is cheaper. The 960, a card from the twilight zone???
pkl (12:12 AM, November 12, 2016)
Got to take rx 470.
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