ATI Radeon HD 5470 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1168
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.53
ArchitectureGen. 5 Arrandale (2010)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGMA HDCedar
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)13 February 2012 (12 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 cores1280
Core clock speed500 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistorsno data292 million
Manufacturing process technology45 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rateno data5.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.104 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1011.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 13 February 2012
Chip lithography 45 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 19 Watt

ATI HD 5470 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 12.5% more advanced lithography process, and 84.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics and Radeon HD 5470. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics is a notebook card while Radeon HD 5470 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
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