Radeon Vega 3 Efficient vs HD 8470D

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1113not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.03no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameScrapperRaven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date29 July 2013 (11 years ago)26 May 2018 (6 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 cores192192
Core clock speed800 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors1,303 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate10.2012.00
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs1212

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP
WidthIGPIGP
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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2013 26 May 2018
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

Vega 3 Efficient has an age advantage of 4 years, a 128.6% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

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