NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +1975%

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

2048

Shading Units

160

128

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Caicos

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Khalidster

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 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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