GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 470

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 470, which has a core clock frequency of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 837 MHz. It also features a 320-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 448 SPUs, 56 TAUs, 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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 470 should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be quite a bit (about 82%) better at anisotropic filtering 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 is much (approximately 70%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 470, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (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 megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.