ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 vs GeForce 9400 GT PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1200
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.79
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG96CPark
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date27 August 2008 (16 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 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 cores1680
Core clock speed550 MHz750 MHz
Number of transistors314 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate4.4006.000
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPS0.12 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2008 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5470 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400 GT PCI and Mobility Radeon HD 5470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9400 GT PCI is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 5470 is a notebook one.


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