AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Caicos GF108
GPU variant Khalidster N12P-GV2-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 370 million 585 million
Die size 67 mm² 116 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 5th, 2012
Generation Southern Islands
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor Northern Islands
Successor Sea Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 750 MHz 672 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1344 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 28.80 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 160 48
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 4 4
Compute units 2
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 128 KB 128 KB
SM count 1

Performance

Pixel rate 3.000 GPixel/s 1.344 GPixel/s
Texture rate 6.000 GTexel/s 5.376 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 240.0 GFLOPS 129.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 10.75 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 27 W 12 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors None
Board number C264

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 5th, 2011
Generation GeForce 500M
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 2 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 400M
Successor GeForce 600M

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