GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 470, which has core clock speeds of 607 MHz on the GPU, and 837 MHz on the 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 448 SPUs as well as 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		6657 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 3720 (127%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should theoretically be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be quite a bit (approximately 59%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20168 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19048 (78%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.