AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 4438.00

$ 408.96

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

1% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

38 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

22 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

38292 points

290% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

9797 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41978 points

306% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10316 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

36% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2304

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

221st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 780 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 470 beats the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 470 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 470 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 470 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 470 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 470 is better than the GeForce GTX 780.