NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition

  • 9.3x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 215 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 215 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

  • 2.7x more core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 450 MHz
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Name NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
PassMark - G3D Mark 3111
PassMark - G2D Mark 407
Geekbench - OpenCL 10940
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)

NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Fermi
Code name MCP89 GF100
Launch date 1 April 2010 26 March 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 812
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Price now $522.01
Value for money (0-100) 6.87

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 1215 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 215 Watt
Transistor count 486 million 3,100 million
CUDA cores 448
Floating-point performance 1,088.6 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C
Pipelines 448
Texture fill rate 34.0 billion / sec

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 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
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
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pins

API support

DirectX 10.1 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 3.3 4.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB
Memory bandwidth 133.9 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit
Memory clock speed 1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround