AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +3586%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

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GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2010

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF108

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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