AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M280X
+190%
1.792 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470M
0.616 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2015
Release Date
Sep 2010
Gem System
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
88.00GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
896
Shading Units
288
56
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.420 GPixel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.68 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.792 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
616.3 GFLOPS
112.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
51.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Saturn
GPU Name
GF104
Saturn XT
(216-0843024)
GPU Variant
N11E-GT
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.5
Shader Model
5.1
