Radeon HD 4855 vs GeForce GTX 470
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4855 |
| 105 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 470 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 470
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4855 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 PRO) | vs | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 529 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 3,100 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 448 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 575 MHz | vs | 608 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 40 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4855 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 320 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective | vs | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1280 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4855 | | GeForce GTX 470 | |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | vs | 215 watts |
| Release Date | 3 Jan 2010 | vs | 26 Mar 2010 |
Radeon HD 4855
9.20 GP/s
GeForce GTX 470
17.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4855
18.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 470
34.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4855
115.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 470
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4855
736.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 470
1089.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better