ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590 +1843%

1.244 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Mar 2011

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

15.20GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

40

Shading Units

512

4

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

64.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

365W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

GF110

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

3 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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