AMD Radeon RX 570 vs MSI Radeon RX 470 ARMOR X 8G (RX 470 ARMOR 8G OC)

 

 

Maximum Single Precision performance, measured in GFLOPS or billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second, indicates how fast the card is at executing programs, that use single-precision floating point numbers. All single-precision calculations are performed by stream processors or CUDA cores, as such the more cores / processors the graphics unit has the better. Performance also depends on the processor clock. The AMD Radeon RX 570 is slightly faster here. Higher single-precision performance number means the graphics card will perform better in general computing applications. Since stream processors or CUDA cores are also used as vertex and geometry shaders for 3D image generation, higher performance is also beneficial to games.

To speed up processing, the GPUs store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the GPU to run at higher display resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. Memory type, speed, and width of memory interface all affect the bandwidth value. In this case, higher memory bandwidth of the AMD Radeon RX 570 graphics unit can be attributed to higher memory clock.