NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +467%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

448

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

136.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GF100-275-A3

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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