Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce GTX 470M SLI - video card comparison
Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce GTX 470M SLI
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Neptune
N11E-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
November 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
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Compute units
20
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Core clock speed
850 MHz
535 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
576
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
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Texture fill rate
72.00
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
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Eyefinity
1
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.1
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AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
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