NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X +149%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 400M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

288

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Saturn

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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