GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1002 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 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 560 Ti		3466 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 529 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (26%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 470 should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 5664 (4%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 55%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18616 (55%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be a bit (more or less 8%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 470, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2024 (8%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 many 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.