Radeon HD 8470 OEM vs HD Graphics 3000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1180	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Generation 6.0 (2011)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Sandy Bridge GT2+	Caicos
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	1 February 2011 (13 years ago)	8 January 2013 (11 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	96	160
Core clock speed	650 MHz	775 MHz
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,160 million	370 million
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	unknown	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	15.60	6.200
Floating-point processing power	0.2496 TFLOPS	0.248 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	4
TMUs	12	8

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	Ring Bus	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	168 mm
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	System Shared	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	1 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	25.6 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 Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.1	5.0
OpenGL	3.1	4.4
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 February 2011	8 January 2013
Chip lithography	32 nm	40 nm

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