GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 732 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this card. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 40 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 1263 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 should in theory be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 10080 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 should be a lot (approximately 21%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7000 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 will be much (approximately 21%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 470, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5000 (21%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.