AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

NVIDIA GeForce 315M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X +4953%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

VS

GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

896

Shading Units

16

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GT218

Emerald XT

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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