NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +564%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 400M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Amethyst

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

E8950

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

5 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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