Radeon RX 470D vs GeForce GTX 780

Radeon RX 470D
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2016
Radeon RX 470D
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470D

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470DGeForce GTX 780
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere LE)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders1792vs2304
Compute Units28vs12
Core clock926 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs112vs192

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470DGeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470DGeForce GTX 780
TDP120 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2016vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470D
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470D
    135.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470D
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470D
    4322.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better