NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz 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

Lower TDP (215W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +294%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

448

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

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

33.60 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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