AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) and NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M 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, 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 62.5x more texture fill rate: 137.5 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
  • 256x more pipelines: 2048 vs 8
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 5.5x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Launch date 4 August 2016 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed 926 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 137.5 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

  • 4.6x better floating-point performance: 22.4 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
  • 6x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 120 Watt
Floating-point performance 22.4 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

Name AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M
Geekbench - OpenCL 34446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1817.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 99.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1674
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3696
PassMark - G3D Mark 93
PassMark - G2D Mark 334

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Tesla
Code name Ellesmere G98
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016 15 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $549.99
Place in performance rating 482 484
Price now $109.99
Type Desktop Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100) 91.95

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1206 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 926 MHz 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 4.9 TFLOPs 22.4 gflops
GPU Power 85-110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 2048 8
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 137.5 GTexel / s 2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-II
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 10.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore