GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX Titan X

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX Titan X, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 3072 SPUs along with 192 TAUs and 96 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 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 superior to the GeForce GTX 470 overall. (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 much (more or less 465%) more effective at texture 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

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, and very much so. (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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in one second.

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