GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 3470 256MB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 3470 256MB, which uses a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The DDR2 RAM runs at a frequency of 950 MHz on this particular card. It features 40(8x5) SPUs along with 4 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 3470 256MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3470 256MB		30400 MB/sec
	Difference: 97856 (322%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 1544%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3470 256MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 256MB		3200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49408 (1544%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 3470 256MB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 256MB		3200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23104 (722%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.