GeForce GTX 470 and Radeon HD 6830M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 470
Radeon HD 6830M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF100
Granville-LP
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2010
January 2011
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
575 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
920.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
800
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
24 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
23.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
25.6 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)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A