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GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 has core speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 470, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 607 MHz, and 1280 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 837 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also features 448 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 40 Raster Operation 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 1060 12359 points
GeForce GTX 470 2937 points
Difference: 9422 (321%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Difference: 95 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 196608 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
Difference: 62688 (47%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (more or less 254%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 86488 (254%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 48008 (198%)

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 1060 GeForce GTX 470
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2016 March 2010
Code Name GP106-400 GF100
Memory 6144 MB 1280 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 607 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 3348 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 215 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 133920 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 33992 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 24280 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 448
Texture Mapping Units 80 56
Render Output Units 48 40
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 320-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 40 nm
Transistors 4400 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that 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 ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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