AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1206 MHz vs 1178 MHz
• Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 154.4 GTexel / s vs 109 billion / sec
• Around 23% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1664
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 148 Watt
• 942.9x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
• Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33787 vs 28498
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 111.543 vs 105.107
• Around 48% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1817.005 vs 1225.96
• Around 9% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 9.511 vs 8.737
• 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 99.875 vs 35.714
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 511.362 vs 490.688
• 2.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 842 vs 369

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

• Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 926 MHz
• 800x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
• Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9640 vs 7965
• Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 723
• Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11499 vs 9983
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3698 vs 2443
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3340 vs 1674
• Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11499 vs 9983
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3698 vs 2443
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3340 vs 1674

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7965 9640
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	723 766
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	33787 28498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	111.543 105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1817.005 1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9.511 8.737
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	99.875 35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	511.362 490.688
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	842 369

Compare specifications (specs)