Radeon R9 M470 and GeForce GTX 280M SLI - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M470

GeForce GTX 280M SLI

Architecture

GCN 2 (2016)

G9x (2007−2010)

GPU code name

Saturn

N10E-GTX

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

May 2016

March 2009

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

585 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,536 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

2,080 million

1508 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

256

Power consumption (TDP)

-

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

48.00

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Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

950 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (12_0)

10

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

2.0

-

OpenGL

4.6

-

Shader Model

6.3

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Vulkan

1.2.131

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