Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce GTX 470 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M290X vs GeForce GTX 470
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce GTX 470
3199
Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce GTX 470
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Neptune
GF100
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
April 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
Two 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Compute units
20
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
607 MHz
CUDA cores
-
448
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
448
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
225 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
72.00
34.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1280 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
133.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-