AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)
2368 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+426%
5.733 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Mar 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
320bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
2816
Shading Units
448
176
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
215W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GF100
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
