AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +276%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

448

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GT215

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

215W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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