NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +660%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

768

Shading Units

160

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Caicos

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Khalidster

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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