AMD FirePro W600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W600 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W600

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 19.7 billion / sec
• Around 78% higher pipelines: 512 vs 288
• Around 25% better floating-point performance: 768.0 gflops vs 616.3 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1536 MB
• 3.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
• Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 591 vs 413
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1555 vs 732
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3250 vs 1112
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1555 vs 732
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3250 vs 1112

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

• Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 750 MHz
• Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1953 vs 1683

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1683 1953
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	591 413
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1555 732
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3250 1112
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1555 732
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3250 1112

Compare specifications (specs)