AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +41%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Mar 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

960

Shading Units

448

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GF100

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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