AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cypress GF104
GPU variant Cypress PRO (215-0735043) N11E-GT
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,154 million 1,950 million
Die size 334 mm² 332 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 21st, 2012
Generation Northern Islands
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 105 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen
Successor Southern Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 725 MHz 535 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 750 MHz 3 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1070 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 72.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1440 288
TMUs 72 48
ROPs 32 24
Compute units 18
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 384 KB
SM count 6

Performance

Pixel rate 23.20 GPixel/s 6.420 GPixel/s
Texture rate 52.20 GTexel/s 25.68 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.088 TFLOPS 616.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 417.6 GFLOPS (1:5) 51.36 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 151 W 75 W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 6-pin None
Board number E174 P1044

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Sep 3rd, 2010
Generation GeForce 400M
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Predecessor GeForce 300M
Successor GeForce 500M

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