Radeon HD 7490M vs ATI Mobility HD 5470

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1197not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.81no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameParkSeymour
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)7 January 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 cores80160
Core clock speed750 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors292 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt9 Watt
Texture fill rate6.0006.400
Floating-point processing power0.12 TFLOPS0.256 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16

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 amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz950 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s30.4 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 7 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 9 Watt

HD 7490M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and Radeon HD 7490M. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
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