GeForce GTX 470M: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 470M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.06% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 470M sales 3 September 2010. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Fermi architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 60.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 470M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking624
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency4.66of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGF104
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 September 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 470M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 470M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores288of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed535 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors1,950 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate25.68of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.6163 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs24of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs48of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 470M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNone
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 470M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth60.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 470M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 470M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 API
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.5of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 470M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 470M 5.06

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 470M 1953

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GTX 470M 2003

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GTX 470M 9801

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 470M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p34
Full HD50

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 8−9

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
Battlefield 5 12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
Far Cry 5 10−12
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Hitman 3 10−12
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−35
Metro Exodus 12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 45−50

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
Battlefield 5 12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
Far Cry 5 10−12
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Hitman 3 10−12
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−35
Metro Exodus 12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 45−50

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
Far Cry 5 10−12
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Hitman 3 10−12
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
Watch Dogs: Legion 45−50

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 9−10
Far Cry New Dawn 8−9

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Far Cry 5 6−7
Forza Horizon 4 10−12
Hitman 3 9−10
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−12
Metro Exodus 3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 9−10

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 4−5
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
Hitman 3 1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn 7−8
Metro Exodus 2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Far Cry 5 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 470M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 470M is Radeon R9 M385X, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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