NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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NVIDIA A30 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +847%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Unknown

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1280MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

320bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

448

224

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

40

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GT215

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GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

2.0

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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