NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 215W)
Score
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
837 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
320bit
Memory Bus
256bit
133.9GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
448
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
12
40
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
640 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
34.05 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1089 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
57W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
RV570
GT215-400-A2
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
