NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 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 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +224%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 400M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

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

31.20 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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