AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs NVIDIA GeForce 845M

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AMD Radeon R9 M470X

NVIDIA GeForce 845M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X and 2GB VRAM GeForce 845M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 845M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1176MHz vs 1100MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X +118%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 845M

0.903 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

VS

GeForce 845M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Aug 2015

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1071 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.63 GTexel/s

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1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

903.2 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.22 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM108

Emerald XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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