NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X +142%

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 400

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

448

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

136.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Trinidad

GF100-275-A3

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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