ATI Radeon X1650 vs HD 7470 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1397
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameCaicosRV516
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 January 2012 (12 years ago)20 November 2007 (17 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 cores160no data
Core clock speed750 MHz635 MHz
Number of transistors370 million107 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Wattno data
Texture fill rate6.0002.540
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz392 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s6.272 GB/s

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 DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2012 20 November 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm

HD 7470 OEM has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7470 OEM and Radeon X1650. We've got no test results to judge.


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