GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with a clock frequency of 822 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1002 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 560 Ti		3466 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 529 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (26%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 470 should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 5664 (4%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be much (approximately 55%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18616 (55%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2024 (8%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.