Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 470

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
GeForce GTX 470
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 470

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 470
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGF100 (GF100-275-A3)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs529 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs3,100 million
Shaders2048vs448
Compute Units32vs14
Core clock926 MHzvs608 MHz
ROPs32vs40
TMUs128vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 470
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs837 MHz
3348 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470GeForce GTX 470
TDP120 wattsvs215 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs26 Mar 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    17.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 470
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • GeForce GTX 470
    4680

Points (higher is better)