NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

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

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500 +123%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon Sky

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

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

448

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

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

30.40 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

136.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF100-275-A3

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-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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