AMD Radeon RX 470 Vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 - Technical City

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	316	575
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	15.74	1.23
Power efficiency	12.38	2.70
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Ellesmere	GF100
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	4 August 2016 (9 years ago)	26 March 2010 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	$349

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

RX 470 has 1180% better value for money than GTX 470.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	448
Core clock speed	926 MHz	607 MHz
Boost clock speed	1206 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,700 million	3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	215 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	no data	105 °C
Texture fill rate	154.4	34.05
Floating-point processing power	4.94 TFLOPS	1.089 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	40
TMUs	128	56
L1 Cache	512 KB	896 KB
L2 Cache	2 MB	640 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	no data	16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	241 mm
Height	no data	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
SLI options	-	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1280 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1650 MHz	1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory bandwidth	211.2 GB/s	133.9 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Multi monitor support	no data	+
HDMI	+	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	no data	Internal

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync

+

-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	-	+