NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X +443%

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 400

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

512bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

448

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

40

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Grenada

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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