GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of RX 470 vs 970 among Desktop GPUs

Gaming

Radeon RX 470
7.3
GeForce GTX 970
7.4
GeForce GTX 960
6.7
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

Graphics

Radeon RX 470
6.4
GeForce GTX 970
6.5
GeForce GTX 960
8.0
T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more

Computing

Radeon RX 470
8.2
GeForce GTX 970
7.3
GeForce GTX 960
6.5
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

Performance per Watt

Radeon RX 470
8.1
GeForce GTX 970
7.1
GeForce GTX 960
7.7
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

Value

Radeon RX 470
n.d.
GeForce GTX 970
9.3
GeForce GTX 960
n.d.
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more

Noise and Power

Radeon RX 470
8.6
GeForce GTX 970
8.1
GeForce GTX 960
8.6
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Front view of Radeon RX 470
Front view of GeForce GTX 970

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970

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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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Better floating-point performance 4,940 GFLOPS vs 3,494 GFLOPS More than 40% better floating-point performance
Higher texture rate 154.4 GTexel/s vs 109.2 GTexel/s More than 40% higher texture rate
More shading units 2,048 vs 1,664 384 more shading units
More texture mapping units 128 vs 104 24 more texture mapping units
Lower TDP 120W vs 148W Around 20% lower TDP
Front view of GeForce GTX 970

Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970

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Better PassMark score 8,563 vs 7,379 More than 15% better PassMark score
Higher clock speed 1,050 MHz vs 926 MHz Around 15% higher clock speed
Higher pixel rate 58.8 GPixel/s vs 38.6 GPixel/s More than 50% higher pixel rate
Significantly more render output processors 56 vs 32 24 more render output processors
Higher effective memory clock speed 7,012 MHz vs 6,600 MHz More than 5% higher effective memory clock speed
Better fire strike factor score 72.7 vs 67.3 Around 10% better fire strike factor score
Higher memory clock speed 1,753 MHz vs 1,650 MHz More than 5% higher memory clock speed
Higher battlefield 4 framerate 88.6 vs 77 More than 15% higher battlefield 4 framerate
Better PassMark direct compute score 4,375 vs 3,901 More than 10% better PassMark direct compute score

Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 970

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon RX 470
511.36 mHash/s
GeForce GTX 970
212.39 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon RX 470
111.59 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 970
105.04 mPixels/s

T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon RX 470
3,356.82
GeForce GTX 970
3,358.38

Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon RX 470
3,707.56
GeForce GTX 970
3,715.92

Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon RX 470
67.3
GeForce GTX 970
72.7

Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon RX 470
383.43
GeForce GTX 970
428.4

Battlefield 4

Radeon RX 470
77
GeForce GTX 970
88.6

Crysis 3

Radeon RX 470
48.9
GeForce GTX 970
52.8

Comments

Showing 13 comments.
Guest (01:51 AM, December 28, 2018)
Haha, not anymore.
Hidenshinzou (06:33 PM, December 27, 2018)
gtx 970 is better for gaming
Hidenshinzou (06:33 PM, December 27, 2018)
970 is better for gaming
Hidenshinzou (06:33 PM, December 27, 2018)
its called truth
Hidenshinzou (06:32 PM, December 27, 2018)
yep gtx 970 is better
agello24 (08:27 PM, August 1, 2018)
not by much though. the rx 480 was made to beat the 970. the rx 470 was made to kill the 960.
Guest (09:50 AM, March 2, 2017)
470 is the better buy at this point, honestly.
Taha Önes (10:49 AM, February 2, 2017)
rx 470 is better change because gtx 970 better than rx 470 %12 but rx 470 hugely cheap and new technology
Samuel (06:33 PM, January 29, 2017)
The 970 performs better in games, though it was more expensive than the rx 470. In terms of price to performance, the 480 easily wins, but just going off raw performance in game, the 970 wins. The benchmarks speak for themselves.
Thiago Naves (07:03 PM, October 26, 2016)
Big fat lie.
VikingGaming (11:53 AM, October 26, 2016)
its called truth...
Richard Orchard (08:37 AM, October 1, 2016)
I have this RX 470 in my son's pc I purchased it for 1/2 the price of my Strix R9 390 and it is very close in performance so no way I say again no way a GTX 970 is better just stop lying
Higher (06:10 PM, September 30, 2016)
Gtx 970 winner? Bullshit, this site is shit!!
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