AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GTX 470

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

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