AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6930 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (186W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930 +76%

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

448

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GT215

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

186W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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