NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +872%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1024

Shading Units

160

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

248.0 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Caicos

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

35W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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