NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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

Lower TDP (215W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +148%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

14

SM Count

-

448

Shading Units

1536

56

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Antilles

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

389 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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