NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (127W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 +36%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

14

SM Count

-

448

Shading Units

960

56

TMUs

48

40

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

127W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Barts

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

255 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

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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