Radeon R3 Graphics vs ATI HD 5470

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1170not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.53no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameCedarBeema
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 February 2012 (12 years ago)28 January 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 cores80128
Core clock speed650 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors292 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate5.2004.800
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS0.1536 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 x16IGP
Length170 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 width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data

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 HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.3
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 February 2012 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 15 Watt

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 2 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 26.7% lower power consumption.

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