AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1206MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +18%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

4.156 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470 +32%

3685

GeForce GTX 780

2775

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

863 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK110

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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