AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 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

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition +19%

1.089 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

320bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

384

Shading Units

448

24

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT215

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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