Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 970 |
Released August, 2016
AMD Radeon RX 470
- 926 MHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
7.8 Out of 10
by Tim-Verry (Aug, 2016)The company has a nice looking (and hopefully performing) RX 470, but it is going to be tough to choose this card over a RX 480 that has more shaders and TMUs.
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Released September, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- 1.1 GHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
7.9 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!The card is also overclocked to a base clock of 1114 MHz out of the box.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of RX 470 vs 970 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
No winner declared
Too close to call
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better floating-point performance | 4,940 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 40% better floating-point performance | |||
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| Higher texture rate | 154.4 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | More than 40% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly better bitcoin mining score | 511.47 mHash/s | vs | 212.23 mHash/s | Around 2.5x better bitcoin mining score | |||
| 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 | |||
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| Much better manhattan score | 7,436.08 | vs | 3,707.56 | More than 2x better manhattan score | |||
| 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 | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 970
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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