ATI Radeon HD 4550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)
368 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4550
0.096 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
+1034%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2008
Release Date
Mar 2010
Radeon R700
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
655 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1280MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
320bit
10.48GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
1
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
80
Shading Units
448
8
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
96.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
215W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV710
GPU Name
GF100
RV710
(215-0725016)
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.242 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
73 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
