NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition '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 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Unknown

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

1024

Shading Units

448

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

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

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GT215

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

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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