NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +121%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

448

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF100

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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