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GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 4870 X2

Intro

The GeForce GTX 470 has a core clock frequency of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 837 MHz. It also makes use of a 320-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 448 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 40 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4870 X2, which uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 470 215 Watts
Radeon HD 4870 X2 350 Watts
Difference: 135 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 230400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470 133920 MB/sec
Difference: 96480 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4870 X2 should be quite a bit (approximately 77%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 60000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470 33992 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 26008 (77%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be just a bit (approximately 1%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4870 X2, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470 24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 X2 24000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 280 (1%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 470 Radeon HD 4870 X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2010 Aug 12, 2008
Code Name GF100 R700
Memory 1280 MB 1024 MB (x2)
Core Speed 607 MHz 750 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 3348 MHz 3600 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 215 watts 350 watts
Bandwidth 133920 MB/sec 230400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33992 Mtexels/sec 60000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24280 Mpixels/sec 24000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 448 800(160x5) (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 56 40 (x2)
Render Output Units 40 16 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 3000 million 956 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16 (PCIe bridge)
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 470

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Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 4870 X2”
dart says:

Gracias por hacer esta comparasión, tenia muchas dudas respecto de estas 2.
Saludos

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