NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +11%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

448

Shading Units

640

56

TMUs

40

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

80W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 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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