NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 X2 +327%

0.855 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

107.1GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

11

SM Count

-

352

Shading Units

160

44

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

26.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

855.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Caicos

GF100-030-A3

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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