NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +357%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

-

448

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

40

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

640 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

GM204

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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