Radeon HD 8470D vs Quadro FX 580

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1110
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.08
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameG96CScrapper
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date9 April 2009 (15 years ago)29 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores32192
Core clock speed450 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data850 MHz
Number of transistors314 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate7.20010.20
Floating-point processing power0.072 TFLOPS0.3264 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs1612

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 x16IGP
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FX 580 161
HD 8470D 373
+132%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 April 2009 29 July 2013
Chip lithography 55 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 65 Watt

FX 580 has 62.5% lower power consumption.

HD 8470D, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 71.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 580 and Radeon HD 8470D. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 580 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 8470D is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
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AMD Radeon HD 8470D
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