Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 470
Summary
Radeon RX 470
356%
GeForce GTX 470
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470 |
95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Around 256% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports FreeSync |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports TrueAudio |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 470 |
Supports PhysX |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470
The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 470 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
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GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere PRO) | vs | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) |
Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 232 mm² | vs | 529 mm² |
Transistors | 5,700 million | vs | 3,100 million |
Shaders | 2048 | vs | 448 |
Compute Units | 32 | vs | 14 |
Core clock | 926 MHz | vs | 608 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 40 |
TMUs | 128 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 470 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 320 bit |
Memory Speed | 1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective | vs | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1280 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 470 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
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TDP | 120 watts | vs | 215 watts |
Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | vs | 26 Mar 2010 |
Radeon RX 470
38.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 470
17.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
154.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 470
34.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
211.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 470
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
4940.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 470
1089.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
16690
GeForce GTX 470
4680
Points (higher is better)