GeForce GTX 470M SLI and Radeon HD 7870M - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 470M SLI

Radeon HD 7870M

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

N11E-GT

Heathrow XT

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

November 2010

April 2012

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x16

Core clock speed

535 MHz

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

1,024 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

-

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

576

640

Power consumption (TDP)

-

45 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

32.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

-

2 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

64 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

11

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

5.1

Vulkan

-

1.2.131