GeForce GTX 470M and Radeon HD 8870M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470M vs Radeon HD 8870M
GeForce GTX 470M
2012
Radeon HD 8870M
1687
GeForce GTX 470M
Radeon HD 8870M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N11E-GT
Venus
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2010
December 2012
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
775 MHz
Core clock speed
535 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
616.3 gflops
992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
288
640
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
19.7 billion/sec
31.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
60.0 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131