GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R9 Nano

GeForce GTX 470
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2010
GeForce GTX 470
Radeon R9 Nano
Memory: 4096Mb HBMDESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 Nano

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 470
    100%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    379%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 470

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 Nano

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 279% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 Nano

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 Nano

The Radeon R9 Nano is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 470Radeon R9 Nano
GPU NameGF100 (GF100-275-A3)vsFiji (Fiji XT CA)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size529 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistors3,100 millionvs8,900 million
Shaders448vs4096
Compute Units14vs64
Core clock608 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs40vs64
TMUs56vs256

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 470Radeon R9 Nano
Memory TypeGDDR5vsHBM
Bus Width320 bitvs4096 bit
Memory Speed837 MHz
3348 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 470Radeon R9 Nano
TDP215 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2010vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    17.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 470
    34.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    256.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 470
    134.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    512.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 470
    1089.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    8192.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 470
    4680
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    17760

Points (higher is better)