Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGMA 950Caicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2005 (19 years ago)5 January 2012 (12 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 cores4160
Core clock speedno data750 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data370 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt27 Watt
Texture fill rateno data6.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.24 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/s
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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 5 January 2012
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 27 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 has 285.7% lower power consumption.

HD 7470 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 and Radeon HD 7470 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 7470 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
Radeon HD 7470 OEM

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