AMD Radeon R5 A330 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 A330 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R5 A330

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 A330

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 60% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1280 MB
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Around 81% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 20041 vs 11089

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 October 2015 vs 26 March 2010
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1280 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	20041 vs 11089

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Around 65% higher texture fill rate: 34.0 billion / sec vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 448 vs 320
Around 65% better floating-point performance: 1,088.6 gflops vs 659.2 gflops

Core clock speed	1215 MHz vs 1030 MHz
Texture fill rate	34.0 billion / sec vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,088.6 gflops vs 659.2 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 A330
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

20041

11089

Name	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Geekbench - OpenCL	20041	11089
PassMark - G3D Mark		3134
PassMark - G2D Mark		414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		27.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		980.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		47.309
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		97.852
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3317
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Exo	GF100
Launch date	21 October 2015	26 March 2010
Place in performance rating	1073	790
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Price now		$522.01
Value for money (0-100)		6.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	1215 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops	1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	320	448
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	34.0 billion / sec
Transistor count	1,040 million	3,100 million
CUDA cores		448
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		215 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	Two 6-pins
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		9.5" (241 mm) (24.1 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1280 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	133.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround