NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +259%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

1664

Shading Units

448

104

TMUs

56

ROPs

40

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF100

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

529 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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