NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +1103%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

837 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

320bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

448

Shading Units

4096

56

TMUs

256

40

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

136.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Vega 10

GF100-275-A3

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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