GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 760

GeForce GTX 470
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 470
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    183%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 470
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    186%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

86% higher gaming performance.
45 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.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

The GeForce GTX 760 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GTX 760
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-275-A3)vsGK104 (GK104-225-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders448vs1152
Compute Units14vs6
Core clock608 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs40vs32
TMUs56vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GTX 760
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width320 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed837 MHz
3348 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 470GeForce GTX 760
TDP215 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs25 Jun 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    17.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 470
    134.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 470
    1089.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 470
    4680
  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 470
    29
  • GeForce GTX 760
    54

FPS (higher is better)