NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs AMD Radeon 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X +14%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

448

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

40

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

136.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Lexa

GF100-275-A3

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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