AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	86	not rated
Value for money	70.44	no data
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	N16E-GXX SLI	Caicos
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	22 September 2015 (7 years old)	5 January 2012 (11 years old)
Current price	$301	$15

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	4096	160
Core clock speed	1126 MHz	750 MHz
Boost clock speed	1228 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	10400 Million	370 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	330 Watt	27 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	6.000
Floating-point performance	no data	240.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 7470 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	no data	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	168 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	+	no data

Memory

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

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2x 8 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3500 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	28.8 GB/s
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	no data	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12_1	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	no data	5.0
OpenGL	no data	4.4
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	no data	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	22 September 2015	5 January 2012
Memory bus width	256	64
Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	160
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	330 Watt	27 Watt

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