NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +321%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

941 MHz

-

Boost Clock

967 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

1344

48

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

24

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

384 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

GK104

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.1

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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