Radeon 9600 vs HD 7470 OEM

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name	Caicos	RV350
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	5 January 2012 (12 years ago)	1 October 2003 (20 years ago)
Current price	$15	$290

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	160	no data
Core clock speed	750 MHz	324 MHz
Number of transistors	370 million	60 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	12 Watt
Texture fill rate	6.000	1.296
Floating-point performance	240.0 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 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	378 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	6.048 GB/s

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

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	5 January 2012	1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	12 Watt

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