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.

NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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		3107
PassMark - G2D Mark		405
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	810
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
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