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NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 820M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 820M
0.298 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M470 +415%
1.536 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Nov 2013
Release Date
May 2016
GeForce 800M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
12
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
12.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
297.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
24.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

15W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-

Graphics Processor

GF117
GPU Name
Emerald
N15V-GM
GPU Variant
Emerald PRO
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
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