GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 has a core clock frequency of 576 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 999 MHz. It also uses a 448-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It features 216 SPUs, 72 Texture Address Units, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 470, which features a core clock frequency of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 837 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 448 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 40 Raster Operation Units.

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 260 Core 216	GeForce GTX 470
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	September 16, 2008	March 2010
Code Name	G200	GF100
Fab Process	65 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	896 MB	1280 MB
Core Speed	576 MHz	607 MHz
Shader Speed	1242 MHz	1215 MHz
Memory Speed	999 MHz	837 MHz
Unified Shaders	216	448
Texture Mapping Units	72	56
Render Output Units	28	40
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	448-bit	320-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	202 watts	215 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	111888 MB/sec	133920 MB/sec
Texel Rate	41472 Mtexels/sec	33992 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	16128 Mpixels/sec	24280 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out 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 output 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.