NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 285

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

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

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +202%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 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

28

14

SM Count

-

448

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

40

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

190W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Tonga

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

5 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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