Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 7790
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 470
1280 Mb GDDR5
Released 26 Mar 2010
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 7790
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 22 Mar 2013
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 470100%
- Radeon HD 7790130%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- GeForce GTX 470100%
- Radeon HD 7790103%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the Radeon HD 7790
- 130 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.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | Radeon HD 7790 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) | Bonaire (Bonaire XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,100 million | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 448 | 896 |
| Compute Units | 14 | 14 |
| Core clock | 608 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 40 | 16 |
| TMUs | 56 | 56 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | Radeon HD 7790 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 320 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1280 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 470 | Radeon HD 7790 |
|---|
| TDP | 215 watts | 85 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Mar 2010 | 22 Mar 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 47017.00 GP/s
- Radeon HD 779016.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 47034.00 GT/s
- Radeon HD 779056.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 470134.00 GB/s
- Radeon HD 779096.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 4701089.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 77901792.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 4704680
- Radeon HD 77906110
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Medal Of Honor Warfighter
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
- GeForce GTX 47029
- Radeon HD 779030
FPS (higher is better)