GeForce GTX 470 and A2 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 470

A2

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF100

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2010

November 2021

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

Two 6-pins

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

607 MHz

-

CUDA cores

448

-

Floating-point performance

1,088.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

448

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

225 Watt

60 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

34.0 billion/sec

70.80

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1280 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

320 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1674 MHz (3348 data rate)

12.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

133.9 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2