GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 860M

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 860M, which comes with clock speeds of 797 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 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 860M		4340 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 1403 (48%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (378%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 860M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 69920 (109%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M should be much (approximately 125%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42520 (125%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is superior to the GeForce GTX 860M, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11528 (90%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.