GeForce GTX 470 and Radeon HD 7870M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 7870M
GeForce GTX 470
3199
Radeon HD 7870M
1552
GeForce GTX 470
Radeon HD 7870M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GF100
Heathrow XT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2010
April 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
800 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
640
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
45 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
32.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
64 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 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131