NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8470D

General info

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

Place in performance rating	1027	1032
Value for money	0.05	0.01
Architecture	Terascale 3 (2010−2013)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	Richland	G71
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	5 June 2013 (9 years old)	6 August 2006 (16 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$114.95
Current price	$37	$219 (1.9x MSRP)

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	128	no data
Core clock speed	800 MHz	550 MHz
Boost clock speed	850 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,303 million	278 million
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	90 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)	65 Watt	65 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.20	13.20

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on 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).

Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin

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	System Shared	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	512 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	44.8 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 outputs

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	5.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

13

no data

Popular games

Advantages and disadvantages

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Performance rating	0.89	0.87
Recency	5 June 2013	6 August 2006
Chip lithography	32 nm	90 nm

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