NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 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 GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
0.311 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
+250%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
667 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1280MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
320bit
21.34GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
14
96
Shading Units
448
16
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
65W
TDP
215W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
GT215
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
GT215-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
