NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Shading Units

448

24

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

108W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

GF100

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Curie

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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