NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +61%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

448

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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