NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs ATI Radeon HD 5470

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ATI Radeon HD 5470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1584 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +3669%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5470

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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Radeon HD 5470

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1664

Shading Units

80

104

TMUs

8

56

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Cedar

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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