NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 +10%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

448

Shading Units

800

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

12.00 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

136.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

RV770

GF100-275-A3

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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