AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Caicos G70
GPU variant Caicos XT (215-0804070) GF-7800-GT-A2
Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 370 million 302 million
Die size 67 mm² 333 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 8th, 2013 Aug 11th, 2005
Generation Sea Islands GeForce 7 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Predecessor Southern Islands GeForce 6 PCIe
Successor Volcanic Islands GeForce 8
Launch price 449 USD
Reviews 206 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 775 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 160
TMUs 8 20
ROPs 4 16
Compute units 2
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB
Pixel shaders 20
Vertex shaders 7

Performance

Pixel rate 3.100 GPixel/s 6.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 6.200 GTexel/s 8.000 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 248.0 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 700.0 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 226 mm 8.9 inches
TDP 35 W 65 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number C264 P317
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 4.4 2.1
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 3.0

Other Features

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