AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (160W vs 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
+10%
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Mar 2010
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
800
Shading Units
448
40
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
215W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GF100
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
