NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +1254%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 600

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1536

Shading Units

160

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Caicos

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Khalidster

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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