GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 470, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 607 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 837 MHz on this particular 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 4797 (163%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (187%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 470 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 19232 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a lot (more or less 82%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27928 (82%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17000 (70%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.