AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +204%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1792

Shading Units

448

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF100

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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