AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +821%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

2048

Shading Units

216

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GT200

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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