NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +467%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

14

SM Count

-

448

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

40

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

232 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

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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