NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 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)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +149%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

448

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Cypress

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

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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