AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Ellesmere GK104
GPU variant Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204) GK104-325-A2
Architecture GCN 4.0 Kepler
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 5,700 million 3,540 million
Die size 232 mm² 294 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 4th, 2016 May 10th, 2012
Generation Arctic Islands GeForce 600
Production Active End-of-life
Launch price 179 USD 399 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 46 in our database 108 in our database
Predecessor Pirate Islands GeForce 500
Successor Polaris GeForce 700

Clocks

Base clock 926 MHz 915 MHz
Boost clock 1206 MHz 980 MHz
Memory clock 1650 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective 1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 211.2 GB/s 192.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 1344
TMUs 128 112
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 2 MB 512 KB
SMX count 7

Performance

Pixel rate 38.59 GPixel/s 27.44 GPixel/s
Texture rate 154.4 GTexel/s 109.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 4.940 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 4.940 TFLOPS 2.634 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 308.7 GFLOPS (1:16) 109.8 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 240 mm 9.4 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
Width 95 mm 3.7 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 35 mm 1.4 inches 38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP 120 W 170 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Board number C940, D000-03, D009-07 P2004

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 6.4 5.1
CUDA 3.0

Other Features

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