NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 X2

0.855 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +358%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

107.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

11

SM Count

-

352

Shading Units

1664

44

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

26.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

855.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

148W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GM204

GF100-030-A3

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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