AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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AMD Radeon R9 M470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +156%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

May 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

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

11

768

Shading Units

352

48

TMUs

44

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GF100

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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