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GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 comes with a GPU core speed of 607 MHz, and the 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 837 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also features 448 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 40 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 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 660 Ti 6013 points
GeForce GTX 470 2937 points
Difference: 3076 (105%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti should theoretically be just a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 144000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
Difference: 10080 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be much (approximately 201%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 68488 (201%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 is a small bit (more or less 11%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2320 (11%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 470 GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 2010 August 2012
Code Name GF100 GK104
Memory 1280 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz 915 MHz
Memory Speed 3348 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 215 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 133920 MB/sec 144000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33992 Mtexels/sec 102480 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24280 Mpixels/sec 21960 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 1344
Texture Mapping Units 56 112
Render Output Units 40 24
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3000 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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

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