GeForce GTX 280 and Radeon HD 7470A - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 280

Radeon HD 7470A

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GT200

Caicos

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

January 2012

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-A (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

602 MHz

625 MHz

CUDA cores

240

-

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

160

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

25 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

5.000

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

12.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A