GeForce GTX 470M and R420 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 470M

R420

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

N11E-GT

R420

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2010

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Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

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Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

535 MHz

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Floating-point performance

616.3 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

160 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

288

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Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

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Texture fill rate

19.7 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

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Memory bus width

192 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

60.0 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 API

9.0b (9_2)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A