Quadro FX 470 vs GeForce RTX 3090

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking23not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.88no data
Power efficiency13.71no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGA102C79
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)12 September 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1049616
Core clock speed1395 MHz580 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt38 Watt
Texture fill rate556.04.640
Floating-point processing power35.58 TFLOPS0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPs1124
TMUs3288
Tensor Cores328no data
Ray Tracing Cores82no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCI
Length336 mmno data
Width3-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6XSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount24 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1219 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth936.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort2x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.54.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 12 September 2007
Chip lithography 8 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 38 Watt

RTX 3090 has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 712.5% more advanced lithography process.

FX 470, on the other hand, has 821.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3090 and Quadro FX 470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3090 is a desktop card while Quadro FX 470 is a workstation one.


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