GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 470 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)
1312 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+358%
3920
GeForce GTX 470 X2
855
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
107.1GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
11
1664
Shading Units
352
104
TMUs
44
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.38 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.75 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
855.4 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
3x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GF100
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-030-A3
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
