GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which features clock speeds of 837 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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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 Titan		10162 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 7225 (246%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 470 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 154464 (115%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is much (more or less 452%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 153496 (452%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is a lot (about 65%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 470, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15896 (65%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.