GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan X, which features a clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 3072 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation 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 Titan X		17879 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 14942 (509%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan X should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 202080 (151%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X will be quite a bit (approximately 465%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158008 (465%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X is a lot (more or less 295%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 470, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71720 (295%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.