NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +61%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 400M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Venus

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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