GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 750

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 750, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1020 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 750		3958 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 1021 (35%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750		55 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (291%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 470 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 750 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 53920 (67%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be just a bit (about 4%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 750. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1352 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7960 (49%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.