AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Neptune GF100
GPU variant Neptune XT (216-0847000) GF100-275-A3
Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,800 million 3,100 million
Die size 212 mm² 529 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 9th, 2014 —
Generation Crystal System (R9 M200) —
Production End-of-life —
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 —
Predecessor Solar System —
Successor Mobility Radeon —

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz —
Boost clock 900 MHz —
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective 837 MHz 3.3 Gbps effective
GPU clock — 608 MHz
Shader clock — 1215 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 1280 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 320 bit
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 133.9 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 448
TMUs 80 56
ROPs 32 40
Compute units 20 —
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 640 KB
SM count — 14

Performance

Pixel rate 28.80 GPixel/s 17.02 GPixel/s
Texture rate 72.00 GTexel/s 34.05 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.304 TFLOPS 1,089 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 144.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 136.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Dual-slot
TDP 100 W 215 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Board number C608 P1045
Length — 241 mm 9.5 inches
Suggested PSU — 550 W

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.2 —
Shader model 5.1 5.1
CUDA — 2.0

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date — Mar 26th, 2010
Generation — GeForce 400
Production — End-of-life
Launch price — 349 USD
Interface — PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews — 48 in our database
Predecessor — GeForce 200
Successor — GeForce 500

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