Radeon Graphics 512SP vs ATI HD 3470

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1323not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.71no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRV620Renoir
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 January 2008 (16 years ago)7 March 2020 (4 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 cores40512
Core clock speed800 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2100 MHz
Number of transistors181 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20067.20
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs432

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
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed950 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth15.2 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, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.7 (6.4)
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 January 2008 7 March 2020
Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 512SP has an age advantage of 12 years, a 685.7% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

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