NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, 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 GTX 470M SLI

AMD Radeon HD 6870

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI

Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Memory clock speed	1250 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870

Around 94% higher pipelines: 1120 vs 576

Pipelines	1120 vs 576

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6870

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI	AMD Radeon HD 6870
PassMark - G3D Mark		2217
PassMark - G2D Mark		411
Geekbench - OpenCL		4950
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		16.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		857.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		45.514
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		184.41
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI	AMD Radeon HD 6870
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	N11E-GT	Barts
Launch date	1 November 2010	21 October 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	841
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$239
Price now		$89.99
Value for money (0-100)		38.38
Technical info
Core clock speed	535 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	576	1120
Boost clock speed		900 MHz
Floating-point performance		2,016.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		50.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		151 Watt
Transistor count		1,700 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Bus support		PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		220 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	11
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1050 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		134.4 GB / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire