GeForce GTX 470 and Radeon HD 4870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce GTX 470
3199
Radeon HD 4870 X2
1348
GeForce GTX 470
Radeon HD 4870 X2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
R700
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
August 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
800
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
286 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
28.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
115.2 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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A