NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
837 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
320bit
Memory Bus
64bit
133.9GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
448
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
4
40
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
640 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
34.05 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
1089 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
NV10
GT215-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
-
