Radeon R7 M350 2GB vs GeForce GTX 470M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking629not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.66no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF104Litho
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 September 2010 (14 years ago)5 May 2015 (9 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 cores288384
Core clock speed535 MHz825 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate25.6819.80
Floating-point processing power0.6163 TFLOPS0.6336 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs4824

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB2 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth60.0 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.16.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.1 (1.2)
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2010 5 May 2015
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R7 M350 2GB has an age advantage of 4 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 470M and Radeon R7 M350 2GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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