GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 470

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce GTX 470
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 470

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 470

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 470
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGF100 (GF100-275-A3)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs529 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs3,100 million
Shaders768vs448
Compute Units6vs14
Core clock1290 MHzvs608 MHz
ROPs32vs40
TMUs48vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 470
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs320 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs837 MHz
3348 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1280 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 470
TDP75 wattsvs215 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs26 Mar 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    17.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 470
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 470
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better