AMD Radeon HD 7470A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7470A

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7470A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7470A +227%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470A

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

May 2007

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

160

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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