GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 470, which features a clock frequency of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 837 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 448 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 40 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 4797 (163%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (187%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 470 should theoretically be just a bit better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 19232 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 82%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27928 (82%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 70%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 470, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17000 (70%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.