GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 470, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 607 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 837 MHz on this model. It features 448 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 40 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 1080		21942 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 19005 (647%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1080 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 470 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 193760 (145%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is a lot (about 656%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 223128 (656%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78568 (324%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per 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 clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.