ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 vs FirePro 2270

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	RV6xx (2008−2010)
GPU code name	Cedar	M82-XT + RS780M
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	31 January 2011 (13 years ago)	8 January 2009 (15 years ago)

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 cores	80	80
Core clock speed	600 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	292 million	362 Million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	4.800	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.096 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	no data
TMUs	8	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	no data
Length	170 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR3	DDR2/GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors

1x DMS-59

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	31 January 2011	8 January 2009
Chip lithography	40 nm	55 nm

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