NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 65W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440
+25%
0.311 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8470 OEM
0.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 400
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
160
16
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
248.0 GFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
65W
TDP
35W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Caicos
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
