NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 X2

0.855 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +732%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

107.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

11

SM Count

-

352

Shading Units

2304

44

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

26.75 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

855.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

3x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GF100-030-A3

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

529 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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