GeForce GTX 470 and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce GTX 470
3199
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce GTX 470
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
May 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
743 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
320
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
215 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
11.89
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A