NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 +163%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

448

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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