AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +622%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

0.855 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

107.1GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

11

2304

Shading Units

352

144

TMUs

44

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.38 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.75 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

855.4 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GF100

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GF100-030-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

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

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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