GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 960, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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 960		7627 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 4690 (160%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 470 should be 20% faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 21920 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be much (more or less 112%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38136 (112%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11784 (49%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.