GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G
vs
Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.21 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.94 TFLOPS.

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top has 1664 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.36 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.51 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ellesmere architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 13 execution units.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G GPU Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top
AMD Radeon RX 470 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Polaris 10 PRO GPU Chip GM204-200-A1
Ellesmere Architecture Maxwell 2.0
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 13
2048 Shader 1664
32 Render Output Units 56
128 Texture Units 104
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.650 GHz clocks.

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.650 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
6.6 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
211 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has a turbo clock of 1.206 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top is 1.355 GHz.

0.926 GHz Base Clock 1.203 GHz
1.206 GHz Boost Clock 1.355 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

120 W TDP 145 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 80 mm Fan 1 3 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_0.

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_0 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
No VP9 No

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of -- in the case.

The width of the Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top is 40 mm and thus requires the space of -- in the PC case.

232 mm Length --
116 mm Height --
40 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) --
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G was released in Q3/2016.

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 970 Ares Top published in Q4/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

GV-RX470WF2-4GD Part-no --
Q3/2016 Release date Q4/2014
179 $ (Reference) Launch Price 329 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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