Radeon HD 8470D vs GeForce 8600 GTS

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	1079
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	no data	0.05
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name	G84	Richland
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years old)	5 June 2013 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data
Current price	$84 (0.4x MSRP)	$37

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	32	128
Core clock speed	675 MHz	800 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	850 MHz
Number of transistors	289 million	1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	65 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.8 billion/sec	10.20
Floating-point performance	92.8 gflops	no data

Size and 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 1.0 x16	IGP
Length	198 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data
SLI options	+	no data

Memory

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	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	32 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Video outputs and ports

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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
OpenGL	2.1	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	17 April 2007	5 June 2013
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Chip lithography	80 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	65 Watt

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