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GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 features a GPU core clock speed of 607 MHz, and the 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 837 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is made up of 448 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1026 MHz on this particular card. It features 192 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 24 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 470 2937 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1897 points
Difference: 1040 (55%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Difference: 99 Watts (85%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 470 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
Difference: 35424 (36%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 is a bit (approximately 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5192 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 should be a bit (about 12%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2680 (12%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 470 GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 2010 March 2011
Code Name GF100 GF116
Memory 1280 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 3348 MHz 4104 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 215 watts 116 watts
Bandwidth 133920 MB/sec 98496 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33992 Mtexels/sec 28800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24280 Mpixels/sec 21600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 192
Texture Mapping Units 56 32
Render Output Units 40 24
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3000 million 1170 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a 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 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 470

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Comments

3 Responses to “GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti”
Dave says:

why the hell would they design 550 to be worse than 480?

rob says:

Because the average user wont want to spend the price of a 480. 550 gives adequate performance for most people to use. 480 is STILL more expensive than the 550 as well.

Bogdan says:

So... twice the power consumption, ~10% more potent and ~130% more expensive... what's the point of buying a gtx470? 🙂

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