Graphics card comparison
Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
AMD
Radeon RX 470
4096 Mb GDDR5
Released 29 Jun 2016
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
6144 Mb GDDR5
Released 18 Feb 2014
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon RX 470112%
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK100%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- Radeon RX 470103%
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 470
- 130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK .
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon RX 470 | GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK |
|---|
| GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere PRO) | GK110B (GK110-430-B1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 561 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | 7,080 million |
| Shaders | 2048 | 2880 |
| Compute Units | 32 | 15 |
| Core clock | 926 MHz | 889 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| TMUs | 128 | 240 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon RX 470 | GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 470 | GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | 18 Feb 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon RX 47038.60 GP/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK53.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon RX 470154.40 GT/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK213.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon RX 470211.20 GB/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK336.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon RX 4704940.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK5121.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon RX 47016690
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK14880
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- Radeon RX 47068
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK65
FPS (higher is better)
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- Radeon RX 47050
- GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK49
FPS (higher is better)