NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)
576 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
1.089 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
+121%
2.413 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
837 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
320bit
Memory Bus
128bit
133.9GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
448
Shading Units
1024
56
TMUs
64
40
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
640 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
34.05 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1089 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
GM206
GT215-400-A2
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
