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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

47%
47%

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

214%
214%
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is approximately 167% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
GF100
Tahiti
CoresDifferent
448
2048
TMUsDifferent
56
128
ROPsDifferent
40
32
Memory SizeDifferent
1280 MB
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
320 bit
384 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameDifferent
GF100
Tahiti
GPU VariantDifferent
GF100-275-A3
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
ArchitectureDifferent
Fermi
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
40 nm
28 nm
TransistorsDifferent
3,100 million
4,313 million
DensityDifferent
5.9M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
529 mm²
352 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
BGA-1980
N/A

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Release DateDifferent
Mar 26th, 2010
Jun 22nd, 2012
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 400
Southern Islands(HD 7900)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 200
Northern Islands
SuccessorDifferent
GeForce 500
Sea Islands
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
349 USD
499 USD
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
48 in our database
191 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU ClockDifferent
608 MHz
N/A
Shader ClockDifferent
1215 MHz
N/A
Memory ClockDifferent
837 MHz3.3 Gbps effective
1500 MHz6 Gbps effective
Base ClockDifferent
N/A
1000 MHz
Boost ClockDifferent
N/A
1050 MHz

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory SizeDifferent
1280 MB
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
320 bit
384 bit
BandwidthDifferent
133.9 GB/s
288.0 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Shading UnitsDifferent
448
2048
TMUsDifferent
56
128
ROPsDifferent
40
32
SM CountDifferent
14
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
640 KB
768 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
32

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Pixel RateDifferent
17.02 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
34.05 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)Different
1,088.6 GFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
136.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
1,075.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
241 mm9.5 inches
275 mm10.8 inches
TDPDifferent
215 W
300 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
550 W
700 W
OutputsDifferent
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power ConnectorsDifferent
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board NumberDifferent
P1025 SKU 0006
109-C38637-00
HeightDifferent
N/A
111 mm4.4 inches
WidthDifferent
N/A
38 mm1.5 inches

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 470AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
DirectXDifferent
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCLDifferent
1.1
2.1 (1.2)
VulkanDifferent
N/A
1.2.170
CUDADifferent
2.0
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
5.1
6.5 (5.1)

Comparison Summary

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